People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J., at suppression motions; Nicholas Figueroa, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered August 22, 1996, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion without a hearing (see, People v Mendoza, 82 NY2d 415, 432-433). The People alleged that the police recovered counterfeit currency from defendant. Defendant neither admitted nor denied…