People v. Mateen

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered August 11, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent *351felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 years to life and 2 to 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the People, the evidence that defendant continued, by his presence in close proximity, to assist his companion after the larceny had taken on a clearly forcible character was sufficient to prove that…