People v Cobb
2010 NY Slip Op 01974 [71 AD3d 781]
March 9, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, April 28, 2010


The People of the State of New York,Respondent,
v
Deval Cobb, Appellant.

[*1]Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Anna Pervukhin of counsel), for appellant.

Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, JeanetteLifschitz, and Andrew Werner of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Latella,J.), rendered June 9, 2008, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in thefifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review thedenial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppressphysical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

" 'The credibility determinations of a hearing court are entitled to great deference on appeal,and will not be disturbed unless clearly unsupported by the record' " (People v Moran, 68 AD3d 786,787 [2009], quoting People vMartinez, 58 AD3d 870, 870-871 [2009]). Contrary to the defendant's contention, thetestimony of the police detective at the suppression hearing was not incredible, patently tailoredto nullify constitutional objections, or otherwise unworthy of belief (see People v Cooks, 57 AD3d796, 797 [2008]; People vCherry, 46 AD3d 834 [2007]; People v Hay, 37 AD3d 494 [2007]; People v Rivera, 27 AD3d 489,490 [2006]).

Furthermore, the hearing court's determination that the police possessed probable cause toarrest the defendant was adequately supported by the record (see People v Soto, 63 AD3d 512, 512-513 [2009]; People v Scott-Heron, 11 AD3d364 [2004]; People v Brown, 193 AD2d 612, 613 [1993]; People v Guine,173 AD2d 849 [1991]). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of thedefendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence. Covello, J.P., Miller,Dickerson and Belen, JJ., concur.


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