Although the People seek to justify the search at issue under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, the only evidence that such a search actually occurred was expressly discredited by the hearing court.
"The hearing court plainly had doubts about the credibility of the police witness[], and we will not substitute our own findings on credibility unless the fact findings under review are plainly unjustified or clearly erroneous" (People v Corbin,<...
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