Opinion
1806
October 9, 2003.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dora Irizarry, J.), rendered December 13, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and attempted assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 15 years, unanimously affirmed.
Christopher Wilson, for respondent.
Svetlana M. Kornfeind, for defendant-appellant.
Before: Nardelli, J.P., Tom, Sullivan, Ellerin, Friedman, JJ.
The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v. Bleakley, 69 N.Y.2d 490). In this larceny that defendant escalated into a robbery, the evidence warranted the inference that defendant deliberately misrepresented the contents of a package which he sold and falsely promised to return with three more packages in exchange for the money that he had already received.
Accordingly, the evidence established the underlying larceny by false pretenses and false promise (Penal Law § 155.05[a],[d]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.