Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that the hearing court erred in denying that branch of his motion which was to suppress physical evidence recovered from his car as the fruit of a pretextual stop is without merit. The stop was validly based on the police officer's concededly correct knowledge that the registration for the vehicle had been suspended (see, Whren v United States,
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