People v. Meador

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered July 9, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of IV2 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

*328The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The circumstantial evidence warranted the conclusion that the credit card constituted stolen property in that it had been stolen either by common-law trespassory taking or by acquiring lost property, as defined…