New York Court of Appeals
The People of the State of New York v. Anthony R. Behlog
July 13, 198974 N.Y.2d 237
Summary
The Court held that the 1986 amendment to Penal Law § 155.30(1) was ameliorative and therefore applied retroactively, reducing the defendant's grand‑larceny conviction to petit larceny; it also rejected the People’s arguments that savings clauses or the higher value evidence required reinstating the original conviction.