People v. Turner

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

People v. Turner

212 A.D.2d 1000, 623 N.Y.S.2d 436, 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1869

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedFebruary 3, 1995

StatusPublished

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People v. Turner, 212 A.D.2d 1000, 623 N.Y.S.2d 436, 1995 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1869 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1995).

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—Order unanimously reversed on the law, motion denied, verdict reinstated and matter remitted to Supreme Court for sentencing. Memorandum: The jury acquitted defendant of the top two counts of the indictment, charging manslaughter in the first and second degrees as a result of the shooting of defendant’s fiancee. It found defendant guilty, however, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. The trial court erred in granting defendant’s motion for a trial order of dismissal on the criminal possession count (see, CPL 290.10 [1]). Such motion may be granted only if the trial evidence is not legally sufficient to establish the offense charged (see, People v Singh, 191 AD2d 731, Iv denied 81 NY2d 1020; People v Lynch, 116 AD2d 56, 62). Evidence that defendant, who admitted that he had been previously convicted of a crime, engaged in a heated argument with his neighbor, met the neighbor armed with a loaded .22 caliber rifle, pointed the rifle at his neighbor’s head and threatened to "blow [his] damn head off” is sufficient to support the charge of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (see, Penal Law § 265.02 [1]; § 265.01 [2]; People v Bumbury, 194 AD2d 735, Iv denied 82 NY2d 714). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Doyle, J.—Dismiss Indictment.) Present—Green, J. P., Pine, Wesley, Davis and Boehm, JJ.

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—Order unanimously reversed on the law, motion denied, verdict reinstated and matter remitted to Supreme Court for sentencing. Memorandum: The jury acquitted defendant of the top two counts of the indictment, charging manslaughter in the first and second degrees as a result of the shooting of defendant’s fiancee. It found defendant guilty, however, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. The trial court erred in granting defendant’s motion for a trial order of dismissal on the criminal possession count (see, CPL 290.10 [1]). Such motion may be granted only if the trial evidence is not legally sufficient to establish the offense charged (see, People v Singh, 191 AD2d 731, Iv denied 81 NY2d 1020; People v Lynch, 116 AD2d 56, 62). Evidence that defendant, who admitted that he had been previously convicted of a crime, engaged in a heated argument with his neighbor, met the neighbor armed with a loaded .22 caliber rifle, pointed the rifle at his neighbor’s head and threatened to "blow [his] damn head off” is sufficient to support the charge of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (see, Penal Law § 265.02 [1]; § 265.01 [2]; People v Bumbury, 194 AD2d 735, Iv denied 82 NY2d 714). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Doyle, J.—Dismiss Indictment.) Present—Green, J. P., Pine, Wesley, Davis and Boehm, JJ.

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