People v. James

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter J. Benitez, J.), rendered March 18, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second drug felony offender, to a term of five years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. There was probable cause for defendant’s arrest, based on the officer’s observation, in a drug-prone location, of a pattern of behavior involving defendant and another individual, which included a suspicious exchange of small objects. Based…