People v. Robinson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J., at suppression hearing; Budd Goodman, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 4, 1994, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The record supports the hearing court’s finding that the police acted reasonably in the circumstances in detaining and arresting defendant. Police arrived at the building in which a drug transaction had taken place, within five minutes of a radioed report…