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THE PROOF OF CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESION OF WEAPONS WAS LEGALLY INSUFFICIENT (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department reversed defendant’s convictions for criminal use of a firearm and criminal possession of weapon because the proof of constructive possession was legally insufficient:

… [T]he evidence is legally insufficient to support her conviction of the counts of criminal use of a firearm in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and we therefore modify the judgment accordingly. Those counts were based on defendant’s constructive possession of a rifle that was found in the house after the police entered. The People failed to establish that defendant “exercised dominion or control over [the rifle] by a sufficient level of control over the area in which [it was] found” to establish that she had constructive possession of it … . People v Lora, 2021 NY Slip Op 01597, Fourth Dept 3-19-21

 

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