| People v Walters |
| 2016 NY Slip Op 04844 [140 AD3d 1761] |
| June 17, 2016 |
| Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Christopher L. Walters, Appellant. |
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Timothy P. Murphy of counsel), for defendant-appellant.
Michael J. Flaherty, Jr., Acting District Attorney, Buffalo (Anthony M. Rossi of counsel), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Penny M. Wolfgang, J.), rendered May 29, 2014. The judgment convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
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 Supreme Court erred in refusing to suppress the weapon
found by the police in the pocket of a sweat shirt that they recovered from an unoccupied
seat on a city bus. According to defendant, the weapon should be suppressed because he
was illegally detained by police for 1
The court properly determined that defendant abandoned the gun following proper
police conduct and thus that he lacked standing to seek suppression of that evidence
(see People v Stevenson, 273 AD2d 826, 827 [2000]; see also People v
Hall, 152 AD2d 905, 905-906 [1989], affd 75 NY2d 826 [1990]; see
generally People v Ramirez-Portoreal, 88 NY2d 99, 110 [1996]). In any event,
contrary to defendant's contention, the 1