People v. Velasquez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Beldock, J.), rendered October 20, 1992, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and escape in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reversing the conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and remitting the matter for a new trial on that charge; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

After finding a pattern of purposeful…