People v. Fuentes-Borda

— Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered January 26, 1990, convicting defendant, on his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in *406the second degree, and sentencing him to 7 years to life imprisonment, is held in abeyance, the order denying defendant’s motion for a hearing on suppression of physical evidence is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted for such a hearing.

On a tip from a confidential informant, drug task force officers kept defendant and a companion under surveillance for several hours as the…