People v. Alston

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Roger S. Hayes, J., at suppression hearing; Eduardo Padro, J., at plea and sentence), rendered January 26, 2004, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. In return for the free use of a locker, defendant, a resident of a homeless shelter, signed a contract expressly agreeing to keep the locker “in an orderly and sanitary condition,” and also…