People v. Verni

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Knopf, J.), rendered April 20, 2012, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant contends that the evidence was legally insufficient to support his conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree because the People failed to establish that he possessed a loaded firearm outside of his home or place of business in violation of Penal Law §…