People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Galligan, J., at suppression hearing; Antonio Brandveen, J., at trial and sentence), rendered November 28, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress was properly denied. "[M]uch weight must be accorded the determination of the suppression court with its peculiar advantages of having seen and heard the witnesses” (People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d…