People v. Mendez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene D. Goldberg, J., at suppression hearing; Bruce Allen, J., at plea and *303sentence), rendered September 15, 2005, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. The police properly approached defendant…