People v. Williams

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Firetog, J.), rendered November 24, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Vaughan, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The People established at the hearing that the police had probable cause to arrest the defendant based on the testimony of a backup officer involved in a…