People v. Sioba

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Murray Mogel, J., at hearing; Edwin Torres, J., at trial and sentence), rendered June 3, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The factual findings of a suppression court are entitled to great deference (People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d 759, 761). The testimony of the officer that he saw the gun from a distance of one car length when defendant lifted his shirt was not " 'manifestly untrue, physically…