People v. Butler

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mclnerney, J.), rendered November 28, 1990, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The initial stopping and detention of the defendant constituted justifiable police conduct (see generally, People v Leung, 68 NY2d 734, 736; People v…