People v. McLee

—Judgment unanimously modified as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and as modified affirmed in accordance with the following Memorandum: On appeal from a judgment convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law § 265.02 [4]), defendant contends that Supreme Court erred in denying his suppression motion. We disagree. According to the People’s proof at the suppression hearing, defendant was stopped by the police as he emerged from a backyard. The police were searching the yards for a suspect who moments earlier had abandoned his car one block…