Opinion
October 26, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Bookson, J.).
Defendant waived his claim that the court should have charged petit larceny as a lesser included offense of second degree robbery when defense counsel, after initially requesting that the court charge third degree grand larceny, third degree attempted grand larceny, and petit larceny as lesser included offenses, excepted to the charge as given only insofar as it did not include third degree grand larceny. On the merits, the trial court properly denied defendant's request. Although petit larceny may be a lesser included offense of robbery (People v. Ramirez, 165 A.D.2d 656, lv denied 77 N.Y.2d 881), here no reasonable view of the evidence could support a finding that defendant was not part of the group that used force in shoving the victim, tore at his pocket, and some of whom assumed a boxing stance to ward off the passersby who attempted to intercede (see, People v Cabassa, 79 N.Y.2d 722, 728-729). Even had there been no testimony that defendant himself had engaged in such conduct, he was clearly accessorily responsible for the use of force by his accomplices, as the trial court instructed.
Given defendant's record of felony offenses committed under similar circumstances, we perceive no abuse of discretion in sentencing (cf., People v. Maryea, 157 A.D.2d 605, 606, lv denied 76 N.Y.2d 792).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Wallach, Kupferman and Nardelli, JJ.