People v. Gillis

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Robinson, J.), rendered December 18, 1992, convicting her of criminal possession of marihuana in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, it was established that the defendant arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on a flight from Guyana carrying two suitcases containing various items of clothing that had packages of marihuana sewn into the garment linings. The defendant sought to establish that the suitcases did not actually belong to…