People v. Cohen

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered May 21, 1992, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon his plea of guilty, 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.

The court’s plea allocution was insufficient to substantiate that the defendant understood that he was waiving the evidentiary suppression issues. The…