Opinion
September 29, 1986
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Deeley, J.).
Judgment reversed, on the law, indictment dismissed, and matter remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50.
Criminal Term erred in charging criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as a lesser included offense of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. The element of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (Penal Law § 265.02), that the possession not take place in the defendant's home or place of business, is a material element of the crime which must be pleaded and proved by the People (People v Rodriguez, 68 N.Y.2d 674, revg 113 A.D.2d 337, 343 on dissenting opn of Justice Lazer). That crime cannot be a lesser included offense of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (Penal Law § 265.03) inasmuch as the element of where the possession of the weapon occurred is not an element of the latter crime (see, People v Glover, 57 N.Y.2d 61, 63; see also, People v Ali, 36 N.Y.2d 880, 882). As criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree was the sole count of which the defendant was convicted, the indictment must be dismissed. Lazer, J.P., Mangano, Lawrence and Kooper, JJ., concur.