People v. Placek

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy L. Kahn, J., at suppression hearing; Ronald A. Zweibel, J., at plea and sentence), rendered *539September 27, 2007, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to a term of IV2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Incident to a lawful arrest, the police recovered a bag of drugs from defendant’s person. The record supports the hearing court’s factual determination that there was no body cavity search requiring a warrant, because the bag…