People v. Washington

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kramer, J.), rendered June 8, 1988, convicting him of grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by. reducing the conviction of grand larceny in the fourth degree to petit larceny, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for resentencing.

On April 29, 1987, the complainant went to buy cocaine in a building where he had bought it before. As he entered the building, he was followed by the defendant from whom he…