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People v. Owens

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, FIRST DEPARTMENT
Jan 8, 2018
58 Misc. 3d 145 (N.Y. App. Term 2018)

Opinion

570173/16

01-08-2018

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Leroy OWENS, Defendant–Appellant.


Per Curiam.

Judgment of conviction (Abena Darkeh, J.), rendered January 21, 2016, affirmed.

The accusatory instrument was not jurisdictionally defective. It charged all the elements of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (see Penal Law § 220.03 ), and set forth sufficient factual allegations to show the basis for the arresting officer's conclusion that the substance at issue was a controlled substance. The instrument recited that police recovered a "pipe containing crack/cocaine residue from defendant's left hand," and that the officer believed the substance to be crack/cocaine "based upon [his] professional training as a police officer in the identification of drugs, [his] prior experience as a police officer making drug arrests, and [his] observation of the item, which is characteristic of crack/cocaine" (see People v. Smalls , 26 NY3d 1064 [2015] ; People v. Kalin , 12 NY3d 225 [2009] ; People v. Pearson, 78 AD3d 445 [2010], lv denied 16 NY3d 799 [2011] ).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.


Summaries of

People v. Owens

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, FIRST DEPARTMENT
Jan 8, 2018
58 Misc. 3d 145 (N.Y. App. Term 2018)
Case details for

People v. Owens

Case Details

Full title:The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Leroy Owens…

Court:SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, FIRST DEPARTMENT

Date published: Jan 8, 2018

Citations

58 Misc. 3d 145 (N.Y. App. Term 2018)
2018 N.Y. Slip Op. 50012
94 N.Y.S.3d 540

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