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PEOPLE v. ARACIL

45 A.D.3d 401 (2007)

845 N.Y.S.2d 311

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. BERTHA ARACIL, Appellant.

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

Decided November 15, 2007.

The court properly denied defendant's request for a charge on the defense of temporary and lawful possession. There was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in a light most favorable to defendant (see People v Steele, 26 N.Y.2d 526, 529 [1970]), to support such a charge. According to defendant, she first acquired the weapon by picking it up from the ground after it fell from the waistband of a man with whom she was struggling...

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