People v. Bates

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rios, J.), rendered December 13, 2001, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (McKay, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The evidence adduced at the pretrial hearing was sufficient to establish that the police had probable cause to arrest the defendant (see People v Rosa,…