Legal Opinion

People v. Mercedes

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 16, 1990Published

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Appelman, J.), rendered March 21, 1988, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal *749brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The record supports the hearing court’s determination that the defendant consented to the search of his luggage, in which a kilo of cocaine was discovered (see,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. ArmsteadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
  2. People v. BrownAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985

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