People v. Newland

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered Februaiy 11, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted a police officer’s brief testimony that, while canvassing for possible witnesses to a burglary, he spoke to a person across the street from the site of the burglary, who was not a witness to the crime, and that, as a result of an unspecified conversation with this person, he searched a shopping cart left directly…