People v. Prescott

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered January 7, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On October 6, 1989, at approximately 5:10 a.m., a police officer on patrol observed the defendant holding a gun in his right hand. The officer chased the defendant into a building, placed him under arrest, and recovered the gun, which had three bullets in the magazine.

During the course of pretrial disclosure, the prosecution…