People v. Mason

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lamont, J.), rendered December 4, 2009 in Albany County, convicting defendant following a nonjury trial of the crimes of robbery in the first degree and grand larceny in the fourth degree (two counts).

Defendant committed two separate thefts in Albany County during the afternoon of April 7, 2009. Early in the afternoon, he snatched a purse from an elderly woman entering a department store at Colonie Center shopping mall. Mid-afternoon that day, he walked into a bank, reached across the counter, grabbed a teller by the shirt and jacket, pulled her…