People v. Merete

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Emily Goodman, J.), rendered May 15, 1989, convicting defendant, after a plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second *438felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of two and one-half to five years, unanimously affirmed.

On August 2, 1988, the defendant was seen by one of the arresting officers with the clearly defined outline of a gun at his waistband. Both the officers testified as to the defendant’s unusual action in taking the towel from an ice cream vendor’s cart in an attempt to…