People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J., at Wade hearing; Myriam Altman, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered August 7, 1989, convicting defendant of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him as a predicate felon to an indeterminate prison term of from two to four years, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence was sufficient to sustain defendant’s conviction of grand larceny in the fourth degree. While employing a ruse to obtain money from two unwitting tourists attempting to get a taxicab in front of Grand Central Terminal, defendant and an accomplice stole seventy…