People v. Sass

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Silverman, J.), rendered November 30, 1993, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Giving due deference to the hearing court’s findings of credibility and fact (People v Fonte, 159 AD2d 346, lv denied 76 NY2d 734), the record supports the court’s determination that the police acted reasonably, beginning with the stop of the livery cab in which defendant was riding through the recovery of the contraband…