People v. Burton

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J.), rendered May 18, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree (two counts), petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree and possession of burglar’s tools and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from 15 years to life on the burglary counts and to unconditional discharges on the other three counts, unanimously affirmed.

Police officers who responded to a call of a burglary in progress at 1359 Broadway, Manhattan,…