People v. Skyles
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dunlop, J.), rendered September 12, 1997, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that there is legally insufficient evi*322dence to support his conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree because the prosecution failed to establish that he constructively possessed a gun found on top of a dresser in his bedroom. We disagree.
To sustain a conviction of criminal…
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