People v. Brooks

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J., at hearing; Daniel FitzGerald, J., at trial and sentence), rendered April 13, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fifth degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years and 2 to 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

A hearing court’s findings of fact and determinations of credibility are entitled to great deference on appeal. The testimony of the observing officer was not " ' "manifestly untrue,…