Opinion
Argued March 27, 1991
Decided May 7, 1991
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, Edward S. Conway, J.
Peter Gerstenzang for appellant.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Joseph Koczaja, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondent.
Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Mark Dwyer and Thomas B. Litsky of counsel), amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Thomas E. Mercure at the Appellate Division ( 157 A.D.2d 376).
Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA. Taking no part: Judge TITONE.