In a January 2011 shootout with cops in Harlem, 18-year-old Matthew Melendez missed — and the cops did not.

Now, Melendez is hoping to put his five police-bullet wounds to good use — asking a judge to toss his Harlem Hospital confession because at the time, he had three bullets still lodged in him, and was sedated and in pain.

Prosecutors countered at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing yesterday that Melendez freely agreed to speak to authorities from his intensive-care hospital bed, and was alert enough to try to clear himself by claiming at one point that he’d merely been firing into the air, in warning.