People v. Hamilton

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (West, J.), entered December 16, 1997, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress physical evidence and a statement he made to law enforcement officials.

*716Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The hearing court properly determined that the arresting officer had probable cause to believe that the…