People v. Casanova

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Luis Ñeco, J., at Mapp and Huntley hearing; Thomas B. Galligan, J., at sentence), rendered December 21, 1987, after a jury trial, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law § 265.02) and sentencing him to a term of incarceration of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

Police officers testified for the People that they had been approached in the early morning hours by two women, who informed them that two men sitting in a white Cadillac at a specific location off of the FDR Drive had a gun. Acting on this…