People v. Riddick

—Spain, J.

Appeal *783from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Bruhn, J.), entered September 9, 1994, upon a verdict convicting defendant of two counts of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree.

On January 22, 1993, police officers observed a group of six or seven individuals congregated on a street corner located in a designated high crime area of the City of Kingston, Ulster County. The group was obstructing pedestrian traffic, in violation of the City’s loitering ordinance. When the officers asked the group members to disperse, they did, with the exception…