With regard to the incident where defendant was convicted of robbery, based on threatening a store employee with a knife for the purpose of retaining stolen merchandise, the court correctly declined to submit petit larceny as a lesser included offense. There was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the defendant, under which defendant committed the lesser crime but not the greater (see People v Rivera,
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