Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Frank C. Battaglia, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-07-05
Citations: 86 N.Y.2d 755
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Frank C. Battaglia, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 755–759

Head Matter:
[655 NE2d 169, 631 NYS2d 128]
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Frank C. Battaglia, Appellant.
Argued June 6, 1995;
decided July 5, 1995
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Richard V. Slater, Public Defender of Chautauqua County, Mayville (Donald V Nihoul of counsel), for appellant.
James P. Subjack, District Attorney of Chautauqua County, Mayville (Grace M. Hanlon and Neil M. Robinson of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant's vehicle was stopped by the police at 3:00 in the morning for proceeding the wrong way down a one-way street. The driver of the vehicle provided what the police rationally concluded was a false identification. In our view, this constitutes sufficient record support for the lower courts' findings that the police possessed a founded suspicion of criminality justifying a common-law inquiry in the form of a request for defendant to consent to a search of the vehicle (People v Hollman, 79 NY2d 181, 191-192). Because this determination involves a mixed question of law and fact, beyond our power of review to the extent there is a finding below with record support (see, Matter of Gissette Angela P., 80 NY2d 863, 864), our review process is exhausted.