Defendant was convicted of stealing a wallet that contained two credit cards. On appeal he argues that a new trial is warranted because the court did not define the words "deprive" and "appropriate" for the jury. The trial evidence established that defendant gained entry to the seventeenth-floor offices of a Manhattan building by closely following an employee before the door closed. Defendant was then observed emerging from an employee's work area; the employee rushed to...
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