People v. Painter

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J., at suppression hearing and plea; Edwin Torres, J., at sentencing), rendered January 19, 1990, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 6 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was observed by the police in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan near the George Washington Bridge, an area targeted for drug sales to out-of-State residents. He was seen anxiously clutching to his…