People v. Johnson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Antonio I. Brandveen, J.), rendered July 7,1992, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a discretionary persistent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life imprisonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new hearing and trial.

Indicted for robbery in the first degree, defendant was found guilty of the larcenous taking of a wallet, containing only identification papers and no money, from the person of a neighborhood acquaintance, Lester Mayers. The jury…