People v. Crawford

*774Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Leventhal, J.), rendered January 9, 2007, convicting him of criminal contempt in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Under the circumstances presented here, the improper commencement of jury selection before determination of the defendant’s motion to suppress evidence (see CPL 710.40 [3]; People v Blowe, 130…