People v. Gigante

— Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J., on suppression motion; Edwin Torres, J., at trial), rendered May 23, 1985, which convicted the defendant, upon a nonjury verdict, of conspiracy in the fifth degree, five counts of promoting gambling in the second degree and four counts of possession of gambling records in the second degree, and sentenced him to a fine of $500 and a term of imprisonment of six months on the conspiracy count, to run consecutively with consecutive sentences of thirty days’ imprisonment or a fine of $500 on each of the remaining counts,…