People v. Echols

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Mathews, J.), rendered December 2, 1988, convicting defendant upon his plea of guilty of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree.

At issue is the correctness of County Court’s refusal to *977suppress certain evidence and statements obtained after a warrantless search. On November 30, 1987, State Troopers were summoned to the parking lot of a Howard Johnson’s Restaurant located in the Town of Dickinson, Broome County, to investigate a jewelry theft which allegedly occurred aboard a…