Case ID: ad2d_107/html/0718-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Alton Morgan, Appellant.
   — Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Cohen, J.), rendered April 16,1982, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

The credibility of the testimony of the witnesses was an issue for the trier of fact to determine (see, e.g., People v Gruttola, 43 NY2d 116; People v Joyiens, 39 NY2d 197; People v Cook, 99 AD2d 552) and viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution as we must (People v Kennedy, 47 NY2d 196; People v Benzinger, 36 NY2d 29; People v Leach, 57 AD2d 332), a rational trier of fact could have found that the People proved beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant knowingly possessed a loaded firearm (Jackson v Virginia, 443 US 307; People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620).

Mollen, P. J., Bracken, O’Connor and Niehoff, JJ., concur.