People v. Genao

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered March 25, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to a term of imprisonment of six months, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s conviction arises out of his arrest following a police officer’s observation of defendant attempting to throw a loaded and operable handgun out the window of his apartment premises.

The trial court properly admitted brief police testimony that the arresting officers arrived at the scene to investigate a report of an assault in…