Opinion
April 22, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (J. Goldberg, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the court improperly sentenced him as a second felony offender based on his prior conviction in South Carolina. We disagree. The elements of the South Carolina purse-snatching statute pursuant to which the defendant was convicted are equivalent to the elements of the felony of grand larceny in the fourth degree in New York, and both statutes authorize sentences of more than one year ( see, Penal Law § 155.30; SC Code § 16-13-150; People v. Gonzalez, 61 N.Y.2d 586; People v. Muniz, 74 N.Y.2d 464, 467-468; People v. Garrett, 130 A.D.2d 505, 506). Accordingly, the court properly sentenced the defendant as a second felony offender. Rosenblatt, J.P., Sullivan, Copertino, Santucci and Goldstein, JJ., concur.