People v. Cross

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New *314York County (John C. Leonforte, J.), rendered November 17, 1980, convicting defendant, in absentia, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, in absentia, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from ZVi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

On information from an unidentified informant, police officers approached a storefront social club. Through a window, an officer saw defendant climb on top of a juke box and drop an object into an elevated air-conditioner mounted on the building wall adjacent to the doorway. A woman then…