People v. Mercado
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J., at suppression hearing; Thomas Farber, J., at plea and sentencing), rendered April 9, 2013, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of 3V2 years, affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The totality of the information available to the police justified their request to search the trunk of defendant’s car, and defendant validly consented to that search.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
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- People v. WILLIAM IINew York Court of Appeals · 2002
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