People v. Mercica

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Rose L. Rubin, J.), rendered March 1, 1988, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to two concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of from 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Uniformed police officers, while on routine patrol in a drug-prone area at about 4:00 a.m., observed a man leaving an apartment building. Upon seeing the policemen, the man ran back inside the…