Mr. Jodice, who died of a heart attack at 45 a year ago, pleaded guilty in 1980 in two grand larceny cases involving buying a car with a bad check and selling another car that did not belong to him.

Forty years later, another judge in that state would affirm that rejection, arguing "[courts] should not hesitate to punish the crime actually committed by the defendant" when rejecting entrapment claimed in a grand larceny case.

In 1985, at 44 percent, more women were arrested in larceny cases, usually shoplifting, than in any other felony.

One of the defendants was also listed as a complainant in an attempted grand larceny case that took place on the same trip.

Chief Davis declined to give other details, including the person's name, whether he was considered a suspect in the attempted larceny case that sprang from the woman's accusation, or specifics about the nature of the accident.

In the larceny case, Leonard Leonov said Mr. Bowen met him at a bar, and told him he had broken up with a boyfriend in Atlanta and run out of money.

And the firm would have the pleasure of pushing my grand larceny case to the limit; to a point I didn't care to think about.

DEORIO'S COURTROOM was on the second floor of the Carl Moultrie Building, and getting there took us dose to Judge Kisner's, where my grand larceny case was awaiting the next step in a cumbersome process.

A judge yesterday dismissed a larceny case against a man who had already served two years in prison, convicted in part by the testimony of a former Transit Authority police officer who is accused of making false arrests.

The grand larceny case is pending in State Supreme Court in Jamaica, Queens.