Legal Opinion

People v. Sosa

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 15, 1998PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered November 27, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Where a defendant seeks suppression of evidence, he bears the burden of demonstrating that he has standing to contest the police conduct at issue by establishing that he had a legitimate expectation of privacy in the place or object searched (People v *388Whit…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. Ramirez-PortorealNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
  2. People v. WhitfieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
  3. People v. SanabriaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. People v. VelezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
  2. People v. BimentelAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
  3. People v. MilanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2016
  4. People v. DerrellNew York Supreme Court · 2009

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