People v. Walton

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Scarpino, J.), rendered April 6, 1989, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and 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 that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s assertion that the police lacked probable cause to arrest him,…