People v. Prescott
| Decision Date | 10 September 1984 |
| Citation | 104 A.D.2d 610,479 N.Y.S.2d 383 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Veronica PRESCOTT, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
William E. Hellerstein, New York City (Ellen J. Stein of counsel), for appellant.
John J. Santucci, Dist. Atty., Kew Gardens (David M. Berck, Fresh Meadows, of counsel), for respondent.
Before NIEHOFF, J.P., and BOYERS, LAWRENCE and EIBER, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered June 10, 1980, convicting her of attempted robbery in the second degree, upon her plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial of defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 40.20 to dismiss that portion of the indictment charging her with robbery in the second degree.
Judgment affirmed.
On July 20, 1979, at about 4:30 P.M., Lillian Kasten and a friend were robbed by two men in a parking lot of a Queens shopping mall. The men pulled the women from their car, seized their purses and drove off in the car. At approximately 8:30 P.M. that same evening, defendant attempted to use one of Mrs. Kasten's credit cards obtained in the robbery. The card had been reported stolen and the defendant was detained by security personnel of the Abraham & Straus Department Store, where she had attempted to use the stolen card, until Mr. and Mrs. Kasten arrived, presumably to identify their property. Although questioned by Mrs. Kasten's husband, a police officer, regarding the robbery, defendant made no statements. Officer Kasten also searched defendant's auto and recovered other property belonging to Mrs. Kasten and her friend taken at the time of the robbery. No effort was made at that time to ascertain whether Mrs. Kasten could identify the defendant as a participant in the robbery.
The following day, a complaint was filed by an Abraham & Straus employee against the defendant, charging her with fraud, larceny as to Abraham & Straus, criminal possession of stolen property, forgery and criminal impersonation.
On August 13, 1979, subsequent to defendant's arraignment on the above charges, Mrs. Kasten was shown a photo array from which she identified the defendant as the driver of the car used in the robbery.
Thereafter, on September 6, 1979, the defendant pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in satisfaction of the above charges and was sentenced to a conditional discharge. Ten days later, a second complaint was filed on information provided by the Kastens charging the defendant with second degree robbery, and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree, arising out of the theft of Mrs. Kasten's property and that of her friend. Indictment on those charges followed thereafter, on November 2, 1979.
Defendant then moved to dismiss the indictment on the ground that prosecution under the indictment was barred by double...
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