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PROOF OF THE VALUE OF STOLEN PROPERTY WAS INSUFFICIENT; CONVICTION REDUCED IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reducing defendant’s possession-of-stolen-property conviction, determined the value of the property was not established:

We agree with defendant that, with respect to his conviction of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree under count 1 of the indictment, there is legally insufficient evidence establishing the value of the items seized from the storage unit. Although defendant did not preserve that issue for our review, we exercise our power to address it as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice … . “A person is guilty of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree when [that person] knowingly possesses stolen property, with intent to benefit [that person] or a person other than an owner thereof or to impede the recovery by an owner thereof, and when the value of the property exceeds three thousand dollars” … . It is well settled that “a victim must provide a basis of knowledge for [their] statement of value before it can be accepted as legally sufficient evidence of such value” … . “Conclusory statements and rough estimates of value are not sufficient” to establish the value of the property … . Although the People elicited some valuation testimony from the victims at trial, such testimony did not include the basis for the victims’ knowledge of the value of most of the items in the storage unit … . We conclude on this record that the evidence is legally insufficient to establish that the value of the property taken exceeded $3,000 … . The evidence is legally sufficient, however, to establish that defendant committed the lesser included offense of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree (see § 165.40). People v Hensley, 2024 NY Slip Op 02650, Fourth Dept 5-10-24

Practice Point: The basis for the victim’s knowledge of the value of the stolen property was not demonstrated; possession-of-stolen-property conviction reduced.

 

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