People v. Soto

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered December 4,1997, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant was observed at 1:30 a.m. in a high crime area, with three other men, acting in a manner which raised the officer’s suspicion that they were “casing” a bar for a robbery, in that two of the men entered the bar while one went to the window and peered inside in a manner that avoided…