People v. Becoate

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert H. Straus, J.), rendered April 13, 2007, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of SVa years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. It is undisputed that, based on information that defendant may have been selling drugs, the police had at least a founded suspicion of criminality that entitled them to make a common-law inquiry. The record supports the court’s finding…