People v. Walker

Memorandum:

On appeal from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law § 265.03 [3]), defendant contends that the weapon seized by the police from the vehicle driven by him, as well as his subsequent statements to the police, should have been suppressed because the basis for the traffic stop was pretextual and the vehicle was unlawfully impounded and searched. We reject those contentions. The police lawfully stopped the vehicle based on a traffic violation observed by one of the officers (see People v Dempsey, 79 AD3d…