People v. Hudson

*490The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). This case escalated from a shoplifting into a robbery when a codefendant used force to retain stolen merchandise. The testimony and surveillance videotape support the inference that defendant physically interfered, or tried to interfere, with the store manager’s efforts to recover the property from the codefendant, and that in doing so defendant intentionally participated in the codefendant’s use of force.

The court, which instructed the jury…