People v. Dixon

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.), rendered February 14, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of SVz to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Though no proof was produced at trial that a projectile was discharged when defendant fired his gun three times, the circumstantial evidence precludes any reasonable hypothesis that defendant was shooting blanks. Defendant’s stated purpose in returning to the scene of his friend’s shootout with the police was revenge, defendant fired his…