People v. Nevins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira F. Beal, J.), rendered September 26, 1989, convicting defendant after jury trial of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him as a predicate felony offender to a term of imprisonment of 2-to-4 years, unanimously affirmed.

On the evening of March 13, 1989, a token clerk at the Penn Station subway stop was engaged in removing tokens from the turnstiles. As the clerk held a bucket containing collected tokens, he was approached from behind by two men who tried to grab the bucket from him. Unable to get the bucket because the clerk’s finger…