| People v Hood |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 05199 [241 AD3d 1209] |
| September 30, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| The People of the State of New York,
Respondent, v Lamont Hood, Appellant. |
Jenay Nurse Guilford, Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Abigail Everett of counsel), for appellant.
Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Jacob C. Marcus of counsel), for respondent.
Crimes
- Possession of Weapon
- Fourth-Degree Criminal Possession of Weapon
- Sufficiency of Misdemeanor Complaint
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Cori H. Weston, J.), rendered March 17, 2023, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to a one-year conditional discharge, unanimously affirmed.
The misdemeanor complaint was facially sufficient. "[R]easonable inferences" could be "drawn from the sworn allegations in the complaint[ ]" by the recovering officer that the loaded, defaced firearm recovered from defendant was operable (People v Willis, 44 NY3d 14, 21 [2025]). Thus, there was reasonable cause to believe that defendant knowingly possessed a firearm (CPL 70.10 [2]; 100.40 [4] [b]; Penal Law § 265.01 [1]; see People v Hill, 38 NY3d 460, 463 [2022]). Concur—Kern, J.P., Scarpulla, Kapnick, Gesmer, Hagler, JJ.