People v. Ferguson

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered December 19, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the third degree and three counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 3 Vi to 7 years on the robbery count, and 2 Vi to 5 years on each of the grand larceny counts, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s direct testimony that he had pleaded guilty in *611previous cases because he was, in fact, guilty was clearly meant to elicit a jury inference that defendant’s failure to plead…