People v. Kitt

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cohen, J.), rendered September 3, 1985, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, the defendant produced a witness who testified that he was present at the time of the defendant’s arrest, and had witnessed the events immediately preceding that arrest. This witness testified that he had seen an unidentified Rastafarian discard the weapon which defendant was subsequently charged with possessing. The…