People v. White

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered July 23, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a prison term of 6V2 years, unanimously affirmed.

Testimony concerning an uncharged crime of robbery was properly admitted to explain why the police officers’ attention was drawn to defendant in the first place (see, People v Browning, 225 AD2d 340, lv denied 88 NY2d 934), and why they ordered him to remove his hands from his pockets and…