Multiple Dwelling Case Study

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TO: Steve Mazzalonga
FROM: Folayan Sokoya
RE: section 782 and "Dwelling"
DATE: April 7, 2018

STATEMENT OF FACTS
On March 31,2018, Defendant, Scott Lang, broke into the buildings of Al Dente’s 10 Main street plot to remove wine and coin properties. The State has charged Scott under the two counts of Burglary in the second degree, subsection 2. Admittedly the petitioner entered without consent but however adamantly denies the building and tunnel can be considered dwellings under New York law. Al Dente on the other hand, the owner, who had been robbed as he was walking from the arcade to his home, gave statement of recently building an underground tunnel connecting arcade to his home. The buildings are in no way connected to each other above …show more content…

The building is a dwelling.
There is no challenging fact to the building not being a dwelling. This arcade is neither an apartment, trailer, nor living quarter within which the owner and his family reside. While weighing whether the structure is a living quarter, the courts will thoroughly evaluate the activities that take action within the structure. The invisible connection of the primary residence is concealed to all thus giving the use of multiple underground dwellings.

The court must also present dismissal proof of the violation Multiple Dwelling Law - MDW § 142 New York Consolidated Laws, Multiple Dwelling Law.

1. When such a dwelling is more than eighty feet in height measured from the lowest point of the yard or of any curb on which any part of the dwelling faces, whichever is lower, and any room in such dwelling below the level of the highest curb which any part of such dwelling faces is occupied for living purposes as permitted in paragraph f of subdivision one of section thirty-four , the yard at the level of such highest curb shall be set back so as to be at least eight feet greater in depth than the yard below such level unless the yard opens directly upon a …show more content…

From each apartment below the level of such highest curb at least one means of egress shall lead directly to such fire-terrace in a manner approved by the department. Such fire-terrace shall be protected by a guard railing approved by the department, and shall afford safe and unobstructed access either directly to a street or to a covered fireproof passage at least three feet in width and seven feet in height leading directly and without obstruction to a street.
The issues in the case must dismiss whether or not evidence that exists can prove the illegal entry without consent. The owner must be shown at fault in constructing the illegal tunnel. The obvious attempt at opening a hatch, and setting off a discrete alarms shows the owner’s intent to partion the arcade as a multiple dwelling. The owner’s credibility must also not be linked to his unrelated previous experience being robbed. The owner’s admission that this was indeed a second encounter with danger will only weaken the case

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