The full interior of a rooming house—and not just a room—where a man lived when he was arrested for gun and marijuana possession should be considered his home under the Constitution, and thus a trial court correctly suppressed evidence gathered at the scene, an appellate court ruled.
In 2011, New York City police officers arrested Leodia Mitchell inside of a Queens rooming house at 106-09 Guy Brewer Blvd., after entering the building without a warrant to search for a man who paid for pizza delivery with counterfeit bills.
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