People v. Rivera

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Elbert C. Hinkson, J.), rendered November 6, 1986, which convicted the defendant of two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and sentenced him to two concurrent, indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 3Vz to 7 years, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, and a new trial directed.

Pursuant to a radio run of a dispute with a gun, two police officers came to the apartment that the defendant shared with Carmen Rivera. She told the officers that the defendant had held a gun to her head, that he was now sleeping and that…