People v. Correa

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura A. Ward, J., at suppression hearing; James A. Yates, J., at plea and sentence), rendered December 4, 2008, convicting defendant of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of six years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. Police investigating a possible narcotics transaction in an apartment building had an objective, credible reason to make a common-law inquiry of defendant. The officers were in the stairwell of a…