People v. Taveras

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Boklan, J.), rendered December 3, 1990, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, upon his guilty plea, 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.

We agree with the suppression court’s conclusion that the police had probable cause to arrest the defendant when they observed what appeared to them to be cocaine…