People v. Billups

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Hentel, J.), rendered December 13, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Berkowitz, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A police officer observed the defendant, alone on a street at night, engaging in a conversation with a person who pulled up in a car. The defendant…