People v. Alvarez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered April 18, 1989, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of imprisonment of 5Vfc years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The testimony of the People’s witness, one of the arresting *57officers, was not so inherently incredible or improbable as to warrant reversal of the suppression court’s determination of credibility (see, People v Benitez, 162 AD2d 100). According to that testimony, the police, in effecting defendant’s…