Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Solomon, Also Known as Robert Salaman, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-09-24
Citations: 253 A.D.2d 692
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Robert Solomon, Also Known as Robert Salaman, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 253
Pages: 692–693

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Robert Solomon, Also Known as Robert Salaman, Appellant.
[679 NYS2d 97]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered February 7, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in. the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. We see no reason to disturb the court's credibility determinations, which are supported by the record (see, People v Prochilo, 41 NY2d 759, 761). The court's instruction on the "place of business" exception of Penal Law § 265.02 (4) was correct. Defendant was not in his "place of business" when he stood on the street corner near his cab, ostensibly waiting to escort a customer to the cab (People v Figueroa, 207 AD2d 670; see also, People v Powell, 54 NY2d 524, 531; People v Buckmire, 237 AD2d 151, 152, lv denied 90 NY2d 902).
We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion and find that the sentence was not based on any inappropriate criteria. Concur — Lerner, P. J., Milonas, Wallach and Rubin, JJ.