Opinion
October 2, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Farlo, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the court did not err in refusing to charge criminal trespass as a lesser included offense of burglary in the second degree because there was no reasonable view of the evidence upon which the jury could have found him guilty of criminal trespass but not burglary. The undisputed evidence indicates that the police arrived at the subject premises in response to a radio transmission of a burglary in progress about 10 minutes after the complainant owner's departure. Upon their arrival, the officers observed that the front door had been pushed in and that the second-floor master bedroom had been ransacked. The defendant was apprehended inside the premises, in a closed-off laundry room located in the basement, about two feet from a washing machine containing several pieces of jewelry taken from the upstairs bedroom. Notwithstanding the defendant's proffered explanation to the police upon being apprehended that he entered the premises to use the bathroom, there is no reasonable view of the evidence from which the jury could have found him guilty of criminal trespass but not burglary. Accordingly, the court's refusal to submit criminal trespass as a lesser included offense was proper (CPL 300.50; People v Glover, 57 N.Y.2d 61; People v Evans, 135 A.D.2d 648).
The sentence imposed upon the defendant was neither unduly harsh nor excessive under the circumstances (see, People v Suitte, 90 A.D.2d 80). Thompson, J.P., Bracken, Kunzeman and Rubin, JJ., concur.