People v. Dukes

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered February 3, 1988, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and sentencing him as a violent predicate felon to eight years’ to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant, wearing a distinctive blue jacket, was caught in the act of burglarizing a residential basement in Manhattan. The resident gave chase and was joined by a bystander and, subsequently, by two policemen whom he alerted on the way. The resident momentarily lost sight of the burglar twice as he turned two corners.…