Case ID: ad2d_101/html/0757-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Juan Tejada, Appellant.
   Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (H. Bell, J.), rendered March 22, 1983, convicting defendant, after Bench trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law, § 265.03), is unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, so as to reduce the conviction to a conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law, § 265.02, subd [4]), and the case is remitted to the Trial Term with the direction to sentence the defendant accordingly, and the judgment is otherwise affirmed. H On the facts of this case, the evidence does not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant intended to use the pistol unlawfully against another. In this case the interest of justice will be better served by a conviction of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree. Concur — Kupferman, J. P., Sandler, Ross, Silverman and Alexander, JJ.