People v. Cooper

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rivera, J.), rendered February 1, 1996, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the defendant’s conviction of grand larceny in the fourth degree under the second count of the indictment to petit larceny, and vacating the sentence imposed thereon; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention…