People v. Steinmetz

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Demakos, J.), rendered March 13, 1992, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Hentel, J.), 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 contention, the hearing court properly found that the police had probable cause to arrest him. The hearing testimony…