The evidence was legally sufficient to support the verdict. The People introduced overwhelming evidence which established that defendant, a police officer, stole $1,700 in cash from a drug purchaser inside an apartment in the course of a "buy and bust" operation. The jurors reasonably chose to reject defendant's illogical and self-serving testimony and to credit the testimony of his partners and two drug purchasers. The discrepancies between the accounts of how defendant...
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