People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford Scott, J.), rendered January 5, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 31/2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. While no testimony regarding the officers’ experience and training was elicited at the suppression hearing, their testimony that they observed defendant and another man huddled with their heads down, defendant passing currency to the other man…