People v. Stevens

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Elbert Hinkson, J.), rendered June 6, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal *146possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 years probation, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. In the course of exercising his right to inquire and questioning defendant and his companions about a report, received moments before, of a heated dispute involving a firearm at a specified building, the officer encountered an escalating situation in which he reasonably perceived his…