People v. Carswell

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J., at hearing, trial and sentence), rendered May 29, 1991, after a jury trial, convicting defendant of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of from 1 Vi to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

*517Defendant and a codefendant pickpocketed the complainant while he was entering a subway car and as two plainclothes police officers observed. Defendant’s contention that the court’s Sandoval ruling constituted an abuse of discretion is without merit. The trial court ruled that the People…