People v. Washington

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Harris, J.), rendered October 9, 1987, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing a sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Santagata, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence and statements made by him to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that the jury’s verdict finding him guilty of criminal possession of a…