People v. Williams

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Rich, Jr., J.), rendered October 31, 2014, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.

In February 2014, an officer of the Elmira Police Department stopped a vehicle that matched a description of one that had been stolen and that was being driven by defendant. After defendant acknowledged that his driver’s license was suspended, he was arrested for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the second degree. Following his arrest,…