People v. Braun

Judgment unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed, in accordance with the following Memorandum: The record fully supports the suppression court’s finding that defendant’s arrest was based upon probable cause. Moreover, the incriminating evidence justifying the seizure of defendant’s automobile was not the result of an illegal arrest, but was based on probable cause arising from facts developed in the process of the police investigation and before an arrest was effected (see, People v Kozlowski, 69 NY2d 761; People v Maltese, 149 AD2d 626, lv denied 74 NY2d 743). The sentence,…