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Displaying What Appeared to Be a Firearm to Someone Other than the Robbery Victim During Flight from the Robbery Scene Supported Second Degree Robbery Conviction

After noting that merely telling the cashier he had a gun was not enough to meet the criteria for displaying a firearm in the course of a robbery, the Third Department determined that defendant’s “displaying” of what “appeared to be” a firearm to someone other than the victim of the robbery, as he was fleeing from the store he robbed, was sufficient to support his conviction for robbery in the second degree:

To prove the display element, “[t]he People must show that the defendant consciously displayed something that could reasonably be perceived as a firearm, with the intent of forcibly taking property, and that the victim actually perceived the display” … . While the object displayed need not in fact be a firearm …, “it must appear to the victim by sight, touch or sound that he [or she] is threatened by a firearm” …. The display requirement “cannot be read so broadly as to include mere statements that a robber is armed with a gun” … . While such statements can give meaning to a robber’s otherwise ambiguous actions, such as “a hand consciously concealed in clothing” …, “words alone will not constitute a display of what appears to be a firearm” … .

Here, the cashier testified that defendant said the word “gun” when demanding that she turn over the money, but she did not testify to witnessing any action on his part that would constitute a display of a firearm, nor did she testify that she believed he possessed a firearm. Thus, her testimony is insufficient to establish that defendant displayed a firearm during the robbery. But the inquiry does not end there. Although several cases address the issue as whether the victim perceived the gun …, the statute does not mention to whom the apparent weapon must be displayed (see Penal Law § 160.10 [2] [b]; …). The language of the statute — namely, that the display can occur in the course of “immediate flight” from the robbery and not just during the commission thereof — implies that the display may be directed at an individual other than the victim of the robbery, with the implication that the apparent weapon must be displayed for the purpose of allowing the defendant to deter someone from attempting to either recover possession of the stolen property or impede the defendant’s escape (Penal Law § 160.10 [2] [b]). People v Colon, 2014 NY Slip Op 02626, 3rd Dept 4-17-14

 

April 17, 2014
Tags: ROBBERY, Third Department
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