People v. Chatelain

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J., at suppression hearing; John Cataldo, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered January 4, 2007, 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 JVa to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Defendant’s arguments that the arresting officer should have issued a summons rather than arresting defendant and conducting a search incident to that arrest are unpreserved (see…