People v. Ortiz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered June 19, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 13/4 to SVa years and 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. The testimony fully supported the inference that defendant took the property from the complainant’s backpack, and there was no evidence supporting a theory that defendant found the property…