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People v. Robinson
New York Court of Appeals (1983) | 60 N.Y.2d 982; 459 N.E.2d 483; 471 N.Y.S.2d 258; 1983 N.Y. LEXIS 3595
TL;DR: Defendant helped friends strip tires from a car they had stolen the previous day. The court held he was not guilty of larceny because the crime was complete before his involvement began, making him a possessor of stolen goods, not a thief.
Legal Significance: This case clarifies the temporal scope of larceny for accomplice liability. A defendant must assist while the crime is in progress; once asportation has ceased, subsequent assistance constitutes a different crime, such as criminal possession of stolen property, not larceny.
