People v. Velez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert J. Adlerberg, J.H.O., at suppression hearing; Rena K. Uviller, J., at suppression ruling; A. Kirke Bartley, Jr., J., at plea; Rena K. *450Uviller, J., at sentencing), rendered July 28, 2011, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of 2V2 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the indictment dismissed.

The suspicionless vehicle checkpoint stop that led to the recovery of contraband in this case was constitutionally impermissible…