People v. Maldonado

— Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered August 14, 1989, convicting defendant after a jury trial of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to an indeterminate term of 3-Vi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Police received information from an identified citizen, who had been the victim of a shooting, that a person matching defendant’s description was the perpetrator. A few days later, as investigating plainclothes officers passed defendant on a street corner, they observed that defendant matched…