People v Red
2005 NY Slip Op 00472 [14 AD3d 465]
January 27, 2005
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 16, 2005


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
John Red, Also Known as Anthony Paulin, Appellant.

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald A. Zweibel, J.), rendered February 14, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3½ to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490 [1987]). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning credibility. The element of entry into premises with intent to commit a crime therein was established by credible evidence warranting the conclusion that defendant ransacked the store in question (see People v Wilson, 203 AD2d 211 [1994], lv denied 84 NY2d 835 [1994]).

The court adequately instructed the jury on the requirement of entry with intent to commit a crime (see People v Gaines, 74 NY2d 358, 362 [1989]).

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Ellerin, Sweeny and Catterson, JJ.