People v. Leonidow

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Otsego County (Coccoma, J.), rendered October 6, 1997, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of burglary in the third degree and criminal sale of marihuana in the fifth degree.

In the late evening hours of December 13, 1996, Bradley Martin observed two individuals exiting a hair salon known as Snippers 2 in the Village of Richfield Springs, Otsego County. Martin called the State Police and, as a consequence, Troopers Daniel Charleson and Kelvin Preston drove to the scene. Upon *918arrival, the Troopers observed footprints in the snow…