People v. Mathison

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J., on motion; William Wetzel, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered September 24, 1999, convicting defendant of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

This appeal was held in abeyance pending a Mapp /Dunaway hearing (282 AD2d 283) on defendant’s motion to suppress evidence, following which Supreme Court held that there was probable cause for his arrest. We agree.

Probable cause may be…