Legal Opinion
People v. Ruggiero
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 30, 2001PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Kowtna, J.), rendered May 3, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the third degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Under either the complainant’s or the defendant’s version of the facts, the trial court properly declined to charge petit larceny as a lesser-included offense of robbery in the third degree. Accepting the complainant’s assertion that force was used, no reasonable view of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- People v. RodriguezNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
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- People v. KendrickAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
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