Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 460.50 (5).
There is no merit to the defendant's contention that the court should have suppressed physical evidence seized from his car. Where the police observed the defendant's vehicle speed away from an intersection and begin to drag race with another vehicle, the stop of the defendant's vehicle was valid (see,
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