People v. Kennedy

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hall, J.), rendered January 4, 1999, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant has not preserved for appellate review his contention that the warrantless search of his sister’s apartment was illegal. In any event, in order to have requisite standing to contest the search of a premises, the defendant must establish that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the area searched (see, Rakas…