People v. Cabrera

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lombardo, J.), rendered May 4, 1987, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant, who admittedly shot and killed his brother-*474in-law, was acquitted of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree but convicted of unlawfully possessing the weapon he used during the shooting. The defendant’s assertion to the contrary notwithstanding, the trial court did not err when it denied his…