People v. Brooks

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Nolan, J.), rendered November 6, 1995, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, without a hearing (West, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Trial Judge accepted as nonpretextual the People’s explanations for…