People v. Westbrook

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree after police, executing a no-knock warrant, found him in a bedroom about 12 to 15 feet away from a television set in the living room upon which a number of heat-sealed plastic pack*1040ets of cocaine were in plain view. Several stacks of money were found in the same bedroom where defendant was located, and a notebook resembling a ledger was also found in the apartment. County Court properly applied the statutory presumption of possession pursuant to Penal Law…