People v Boyd

People v Boyd 2009 NY Slip Op 09244 [68 AD3d 889] December 8, 2009 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Rasheke Boyd, Appellant.

—[*1] Joseph F. Kilada, Garden City, N.Y., for appellant.

Kathleen M. Rice, District Attorney, Mineola, N.Y. (Tammy J. Smiley, Andre K. Cizmarik, and Paul E. Dans of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Sullivan, J.), rendered June 14, 2006, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree (four counts), attempted robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree (two counts), and assault in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Honorof, J.), of that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant's contention that the police did not have probable cause to stop his car is unpreserved for appellate review, as the defendant did not raise this claim at the suppression hearing (see People v McNair, 45 AD3d 872 [2007]; People v Rogers, 34 AD3d 504 [2006]). In any event, the stop of the defendant's vehicle was lawful. " '[A]s a general matter, the decision to stop an automobile is reasonable where the police have probable cause to believe that a traffic violation has occurred' " (People v Sluszka, 15 AD3d 421, 423 [2005], quoting People v Robinson, 97 NY2d 341, 348-349 [2001]). The police officer's testimony established that he had probable cause to stop the defendant after he observed the defendant driving through a red light (see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1111). Rivera, J.P., Miller, Dickerson and Roman, JJ., concur.