People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J., at suppression hearing; Joan Sudolnik, J., at plea and sentence), rendered November 3, 1997, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing *692him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 8 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The record supports the court’s finding of probable cause to stop and search the vehicle in which defendant was a passenger and to search his knapsack. The court properly found that the drug runner who…