People v. Gill

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Barasch, J.), rendered July 12, 1994, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that his conviction under Penal Law § 265.02 (4), which provides that a person is guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree when he or she knowingly possesses any loaded firearm, except where the possession takes…