People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Wetzel, J.), rendered December 3,1996, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a determinate term of 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

The hearing court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress. Defendant was lawfiilly stopped and detained by the police based on his resemblance, along with his two companions, to the sufficiently detailed joint description of the perpetrators of a robbery as described by the victim, and his close proximity to the crime scene…