People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter J. Benitez, J., at dismissal motion; Michael R. Sonberg, J., at hearings; Lester B. Adler, J., at jury trial and sentencing), rendered January 29, 2010, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress physical evidence. When defendant discarded a pistol, this was not the product of any unlawful police activity. The officers, who were investigating a…