People v. Dillard

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J.), rendered June 7, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and petit larceny, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 3V2 to 7 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court appropriately exercised its discretion in permitting the People to establish that in the month prior to the incident underlying defendant’s conviction, defendant had shoplifted from another store managed by the complainant and had been *282specifically warned not to steal again from any…