People v. Gonzalez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael J. Obús, J., at suppression hearing; Arlene Goldberg, J., at plea and sentencing), rendered January 31, 2013, convicting defendant of two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. At the time they approached defendant, the police had a founded suspicion of criminality warranting a common-law inquiry. Specifically, an officer assigned to a subway station…