Court Opinion

ID: 9534834
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:43:04.97658+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:32:46.434523
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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.