People v. Rivera

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward J. McLaughlin, J.), rendered September 25, 2012, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 11 years, held in abeyance, and the matter remanded for further proceedings on defendant’s suppression motion.

Supreme Court erred in concluding that defendant lacked standing to seek suppression of two handguns recovered from a box resting on the back seat of an automobile that defendant…