The evidence adduced at trial was legally insufficient to support defendant's conviction of burglary in the first degree. Even viewed in the light most favorable to the People, the evidence did not support an inference that defendant harbored the intent to commit a crime "contemporaneous with the entering or remaining" in the premises (see People v Jones,
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