People v. Alston

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered February 22, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of five counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Since a major component of defendant’s trial strategy was an effort to show that he had no need to steal money because he possessed sufficient funds of his own, evidence that defendant told the arresting officer…