People v. Martinez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered December 2, 1993, convicting him of unauthorized use of a vehicle in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During the early morning hours of May 13,1993, a Brooklyn police officer discovered the defendant asleep in an automobile which had been reported stolen. On appeal, the defendant contends that his conviction for unauthorized use of this vehicle was against the weight of the evidence because the complainant’s testimony that he…