People v TejadaPeople v Tejada
Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx (James J. Wen of counsel), for respondent.
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert A. Sackett, J.), rendered July 23, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years, unanimously affirmed.
The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). The jury could have reasonably concluded that defendant‘s display of a knife, in conjunction with his demand for the victim‘s purse and immediate flight with her property, constituted the threatened use of a dangerous instrument, because “there was no reasonable explanation of defendant‘s conduct other than an implied threat to use the knife” (People v Sharma, 112 AD3d 494, 495 [1st Dept 2013], lv denied 23 NY3d 1025 [2014]; see also People v Boisseau, 33 AD3d 568 [1st Dept 2006], lv denied 8 NY3d 844 [2007]). Concur—Richter, J.P., Mazzarelli, Webber, Kahn, Oing, JJ.