People v. Gaskin

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heller, J.), rendered March 31, 1989, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

Two police officers testified at trial that, while on foot patrol, they observed the outline of a gun handle in the waistband of the defendant, who was at the time sitting on a bicycle outside 2025 Regent Place in Brooklyn. The officers…