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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Joseph Turner, Appellant.
    [672 NYS2d 706]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered August 30, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. After quickly responding to a radio transmission that gunshots had been fired and observing defendant suddenly dart out of a crowd in an apparent effort to evade the police, the officers properly asked him to step over to their car (see, People v Bellamy, 228 AD2d 230, lv denied 88 NY2d 990). Upon defendant’s flight, the police acquired reasonable suspicion justifying pursuit (People v Salva, 228 AD2d 344, lv denied 89 NY2d 867; People v Blackwell, 206 AD2d 300, appeal dismissed 85 NY2d 851), and thus, defendant’s abandonment of a handgun was not the product of any unlawful police action. Concur — Milonas, J. P., Nardelli, Mazzarelli and Andrias, JJ.