People v. Patterson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J., at CPL 30.30 motion, jury trial and sentence), rendered November 15, 1988, convicting defendant of burglary in the second degree and sentencing him, as a predicate violent felon, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 4 to 8 years, unanimously affirmed.

On June 21, 1987, at the Sheraton City Squire Hotel in Manhattan, defendant ransacked a hotel room and stole an alarm clock. Defendant was apprehended soon thereafter and was found in possession of the clock. According to defendant, who was dressed as a security guard…