People v. Boyd

On May 14, 1987, at the corner of the Van Wyck Expressway and Atlantic Avenue in Queens, the defendant stole a 1986 Pontiac Firebird. Approximately one hour later, the defendant used the stolen vehicle as a getaway car after an accomplice forcibly stole a woman’s purse in Nassau County. After a high speed chase with police, the defendant crashed the car into a telephone pole and was arrested.

In Queens, the defendant was charged, inter alia, with grand larceny in the third degree under Queens County Indictment Number 3518/87. In Nassau County, he was charged, inter alia, with robbery in the…