Your NY criminal defense lawyer successfully challenged the Burglary charge pending against you in Brooklyn or Manhattan Supreme Court, but you still face other charges relating to the offense. One of those charges is Possession of Burglar’s Tools, Penal Law Section 140.35. Although not a felony, the crime is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.
According to Penal Law Section 140.35, a person is guilty of Possession of Burglar’s Tools when “he possesses any tool, instrument or other article adapted, designed or commonly used for committing or facilitating offenses involving forcible entry into premises, or offenses involving larceny by a physical taking, or offenses involving theft of services…under circumstances evincing and intent to use or knowledge that some person intends to to use the same in the commission of an offense of such character.”