People v. Smith

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered May 15, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that the Supreme Court erred in denying suppression of the gun which he discarded while being pursued by the police. After hearing 10 or 12…