People v. Branch

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Cotter, J.), rendered October 20, 1995, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts), upon a jury verdict, and criminal possession, of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Palmieri, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical…