PEOPLE v. MASON


162 A.D.2d 144 (1990)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Johnny Mason, Also Known as Johnny Masion, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 7, 1990


Evidence of defendant's guilt in this case was established overwhelmingly by the testimony of a plainclothes police officer who observed defendant and an unapprehended accomplice set up and carry out a pickpocket operation against an 85-year-old woman in the Port Authority bus terminal. A detective also testified as an expert witness about how pickpocket operations are ordinarily carried out. Defendant has failed to preserve, as a matter of law, his specific challenge to...

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