People v. Smith

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene D. Goldberg, J., at suppression hearing; Robert Straus, J., at plea and sentence), rendered January 19, 2007, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of five years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress a statement that defendant claimed to be the product of an unlawful detention. The police received an anonymous tip that included detailed clothing descriptions of a man and a woman at a specific…