Filed Date: 6/17/2010
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
Order of disposition, Family Court, Bronx County (Robert R. Reed, J.), entered on or about November 9, 2009, which adjudicated appellant a juvenile delinquent upon a fact-finding determination that he committed acts which, if committed by an adult, would constitute the crimes of robbery in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and menacing in the third degree, and placed him with the Office of Children and Family Services for a period of 18 months, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court’s finding was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. Although neither the victim nor his companion saw the face of the person who stole the victim’s watch, appellant’s identity as the robber was established by circumstantial evidence. Like the robber, appellant was a young black male wearing a white hooded sweatshirt. The robber was one of a group of four males, and, when the police saw appellant a short time after the robbery a few blocks away, he was also one of a group of four or five males. Appellant ran away as soon as the police approached and asked to speak with him. Finally, when the police arrested appellant after chasing him several blocks, he was wearing a watch of the