People v Yakuba
2004 NY Slip Op 07250 [11 AD3d 256]
October 12, 2004
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, December 15, 2004


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Kargbo Yakuba, Appellant.

[*1]Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered February 7, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning credibility and identification (see People v Gaimari, 176 NY 84, 94 [1903]). The credible evidence established that the People's witnesses had an ample opportunity to observe defendant and make reliable identifications. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Nardelli, Andrias, Saxe and Lerner, JJ.