People v. Scott

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Solomon, J., at suppression hearing; John Cataldo, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered June 21, 2000, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of Axh to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The police had probable cause to believe that defendant, who stood in the vicinity in a position to observe the drug transaction and, immediately after it was concluded, received currency from the person who had actually exchanged…