People v. Ayala

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Perone, J., at suppression hearing; Dennis Boyle, J., at plea and sentence), rendered March 27, 1997, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2V2 to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

The police had reasonable suspicion justifying a frisk of defendant, or, at least, the officer’s minimally intrusive act of grabbing the outside of defendant’s pants pocket, which showed a bulge. We reach this conclusion based upon the officers’ rapid response to an anonymous call of shots fired…