PEOPLE v. SKYLES


266 A.D.2d 321 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 286

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSEPH SKYLES, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 8, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that there is legally insufficient evidence to support his conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree because the prosecution failed to establish that he constructively possessed a gun found on top of a dresser in his bedroom. We disagree.

To sustain a conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree the People...

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