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THREATENING TO CALL SOMEONE TO HAVE VICTIM BEATEN UP MET THE THREAT OF IMMEDIATE USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE ELEMENT OF ROBBERY.

The First Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Acosta, determined the evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s robbery second and grand larceny fourth convictions. Defendant told the victim (Diaz) she would have him beaten up if he didn’t give her $20. The court held the victim had been threatened with immediate use of force within the meaning of the statute:

With respect to defendant’s robbery conviction, the evidence demonstrates that defendant threatened Diaz with the immediate use of physical force. Pursuant to Penal Law § 160.00(1), a person is guilty of robbery “when, in the course of committing a larceny, he uses or threatens the immediate use of physical force upon another person for the purpose of . . . [p]reventing or overcoming resistance to the taking of the property or to the retention thereof immediately after the taking.” However, “[t]he statute does not require the use of any words whatsoever, but merely that there be a threat, whatever its nature, of the immediate use of physical force” … . There is also no requirement that a weapon be displayed or that the victim be physically injured to demonstrate that there was a threat of immediate physical force … . Further, the threat of the immediate use of force may be demonstrated by “a chain of actions on the part of [the] defendant” … .

Diaz testified that he gave defendant the $20 because he was “scared” after defendant … prevented him from leaving and defendant explicitly threatened him that if he did not comply, her boyfriend would beat him up. Defendant then went to speak to a man who gestured that he was going to call someone … . People v Villanueva, 2017 NY Slip Op 01299, 1st Dept 2-16-17

 

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