People v. Grant

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Murphy, J.), rendered August 25, 1993, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant’s omnibus motion which were to suppress a handgun and statements made by him to the police.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The police possessed probable cause to pursue the defendant, seize a handgun that he had attempted to discard, and place him under arrest…