People v. Figueroa

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered December 4, 1991, 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 a term of 3Vz to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The exclusion in Penal Law § 265.02 (4) for possession of a weapon in one’s place of business was not available to defendant since under no view of the evidence could the place where defendant was employed be found to encompass the sidewalk outside where defendant was arrested in possession of a gun (cf.,…