People v. White

In People v. White, 155 AD2d 934, 548 NYS2d 119 [4th Dept 1989], the defendant threatened the victim by saying that he had a razor, but the victim never saw a razor nor was a razor recovered (see 155 AD2d at 934). The court, in reducing the burglary in the first degree conviction to burglary in the third degree, held "there was no valid line of reasoning and permissible inferences to lead a rational person to the conclusion that defendant had actual possession of a razor" (id., citing People v. Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495, 508 NE2d 672, 515 NYS2d 761 [1987]).