People v. Diaz

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flug, J.), rendered April 13, *6331992, as amended June 16, 1992, convicting him of grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is affirmed.

The defendant was convicted of stealing a gold chain from the victim as she was riding on the subway in Queens. The victim followed the defendant from the train to his home, where she flagged down a police patrol car. A police officer chased the defendant and arrested him.

The trial court properly exercised…