Opinion
October 27, 1998
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J., at suppression hearing; Lawrence Bernstein, J., at plea and sentence).
Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. The hearing court's credibility determinations are entitled to great weight and we find no basis in the record to disturb its findings ( see, People v. Prochilo, 41 N.Y.2d 759, 761). The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in limiting the cross-examination of the arresting officer regarding the specifics of a robbery that led to defendant's instant arrest, but was committed more than four months earlier, since defendant was given ample latitude with respect to the robbery investigation, and the details of the robbery were irrelevant, to the issue of probable cause.
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Nardelli, Williams and Andrias, JJ.