PEOPLE v. BROWN (2000)

Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered October 2, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted grand larceny in the third degree, criminal mischief in the third degree, petit larceny and escape in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2 to 4 years, 2 to 4 years, 1 year and 1 1/212 to 3 years, and convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of violation of probation, and resentencing him to a consecutive term of 1 1/313 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

 The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence.   As to the crime of attempted grand larceny in the third degree, the evidence was legally sufficient to establish that the vehicle defendant attempted to steal was valued in excess of $3,000, and as to the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree, the evidence was legally sufficient to establish that the damage to the vehicle caused by defendant exceeded $250.   The expert witness was entitled to rely on automobile industry valuation books and conversations with the car's owner in making his appraisal (see, People v. Jones, 73 N.Y.2d 427, 541 N.Y.S.2d 340, 539 N.E.2d 96).   Moreover, the owner testified as to the prior good condition of her vehicle (see, People v. Lopez, 221 A.D.2d 243, 633 N.Y.S.2d 787, lv. denied 87 N.Y.2d 1021, 644 N.Y.S.2d 155, 666 N.E.2d 1069).   We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining arguments.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.