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No. 100 SSM 4
The People &c.,
            Respondent,
        v.
Jeffrey Mercado,
            Appellant.




          Submitted by Claudia Flores, for appellant.
          Submitted by Allen J. Vickey, for respondent.




MEMORANDUM:
     The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.   The
determinations regarding founded suspicion of criminality
justifying a request to search the car, and then the trunk, and
defendant's consent to a search of the vehicle, all involve mixed
questions of law and fact.   The determinations are supported by

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the record, and are beyond further review (see People v Valerio,
95 NY2d 924, 925 [2000]).
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules,
order affirmed, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges
Read, Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein and Fahey concur.

Decided March 26, 2015




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