Legal Opinion
People v. Mitchell
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 25, 1991PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bellacosa, J.
Defendant, acting as a "stall” in a pickpocketing ploy on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on July 5, 1987, feigned illness and grabbed the "mark’s” arm while the "dip” lifted the wallet, containing a credit card, from the "mark’s” purse and slipped it to the defendant. The victim, holding on to her purse, grappled with defendant and regained possession of the wallet. Defendant then fled. She was pursued by bystanders and was quickly apprehended and arrested by a nearby police officer.
Defendant was convicted after a jury…
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