Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Pedro Santiago, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-09-18
Citations: 242 A.D.2d 462
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Pedro Santiago, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 242
Pages: 462–463

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Pedro Santiago, Appellant.
[662 NYS2d 51]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered December 16, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him to concurrent prison terms of 5 to 10 years, 1 year and 1 year, respec tively, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree under the second count of the indictment, and otherwise affirmed.
The hearing court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. We decline to disturb the hearing court's credibility determinations, which are supported by the record (see, People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d 759, 761). Money found in defendant's possession was properly admitted into evidence as probative of defendant's intent to sell, an element which the People were required to prove (see, People v Alvino, 71 NY2d 233, 245; People v Brown, 198 AD2d 165, lv denied 83 NY2d 869). The count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree relating to cocaine must be dismissed as an inclusory concurrent count of third-degree possession (see, CPL 300.40 [3] [b]; People Brown, 231 AD2d 433, lv denied 89 NY2d 940). Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Ellerin and Williams, JJ.