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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gerald Bryan, Appellant.
    [751 NYS2d 463]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered January 4, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490). There is no basis for disturbing the jury’s determinations concerning credibility. Defendant’s intent to commit a larceny in a doctor’s office in a locked wing of a hospital was established by the evidence, including testimony that defendant had opened a cabinet drawer and removed a jewelry box. The jury properly rejected defendant’s incredible explanation for his unauthorized presence. Concur— Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Sullivan, Friedman and Gonzalez, JJ.