Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1985

People v. Mendoza

People v. Mendoza
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided March 25, 1985
109 A.D.2d 895; 487 N.Y.S.2d 89; 1985 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 47418
People v. Mendoza

Opinion of the Court

— Appeal by defendant, as limited by his brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Sangiorgio, J.), rendered May 3, 1982, as convicted him of criminal possession of marihuana in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposed sentence.

Judgment affirmed, insofar as appealed from.

The evidence adduced by the People was sufficient to permit a rational trier of fact to find, as did the jury at bar, that defendant knowingly and unlawfully possessed “substances of an aggregate weight of more than sixteen ounces containing marihuana” (Penal Law § 221.25; People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621; see also, People v Barnes, 50 NY2d 375, 381; cf. People v Rodriguez, 104 AD2d 832, 834). Mangano, J. P., Gibbons, Brown and Lawrence, JJ., concur.

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