People v. Soscia

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Lorenzo, J.), rendered January 5, 2011, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A police officer patrolling in a marked police car in a high-crime area at around 1:40 a.m. observed hand-to-hand contact between a man, later identified as the…