People v. Coleman

OPINION OF THE COURT

Chief Judge Wachtler.

The defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of attempted promoting prostitution in the second degree (Penal Law §§ 110.00, 230.30 [2]) and grand larceny in the third degree (Penal Law former § 155.30 [5]). The evidence presented at trial established that the defendant had approached a 24-year-old undercover police officer whom he believed to be a 15-year-old runaway, encouraged her to engage in prostitution and proposed to act as her pimp. The defendant also asked the decoy to give him the gold chain she was wearing, and when she refused, he…