People v. Vento

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Harkavy, J.), rendered December 17, 1996, convicting him of resisting arrest (two counts) and unlawful possession of marihuana, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, the People presented evidence that, early in the morning of February 16, 1996, on a Brooklyn Street, two plainclothes police officers saw the defendant drive a car past them with a front license plate missing, a registration sticker hanging down, and a missing, “popped out” trunk lock. The officers…