People v. Adderley

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas Farber, J., at suppression hearing; Ruth Pickholz, J., at jury trial and *506sentencing), rendered September 12, 2011, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent felony, to a term of six years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress money he discarded while fleeing from the police. When the observing officer communicated to the arresting officer that someone was…