People v. Reid

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered March 13, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the first degree (16 counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 3½ to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. An identified citizen informant is presumptively reliable (see People v Parris, 83 NY2d 342, 349 [1994]), and the basis of an informant’s knowledge may be…