In People v. Dekle (56 NY2d 835, 438 NE2d 101, 452 NYS2d 568 [1982]), defendant moved for a trial order of dismissal on a robbery count because no "immediate" threat of physical force was possible when defendant was unable to open the folded knife. The court denied his motion and charged the jury that "immediate" had its ordinary meaning and no specific time was required to convict; defendant did not object to that definition. On appeal, defendant advanced a new theory, claiming that the trial court should have charged that "immediate" requires temporal and geographic proximity to the taking of the property.