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Cab thief catches hail of a break

A Brooklyn robber who snitched on her lesbian-lover accomplice got to keep her nine-year plea deal yesterday, despite sloppy and inaccurate testimony and a jailhouse incident that violated the agreement.

April Pierce was all smiles in Brooklyn Supreme Court as Justice Suzanne Mondo meted out the agreed-to sentence without comment.

Pierce, 23, apologized to cabby Enois Malbranche, who was shot in the face and blinded in the August 2008 robbery in Fort Greene.

“I’m very sorry from the bottom of my heart that I got caught up in this crime,” Pierce said. “I’m very sorry for the victim.”

Pierce and co-defendant Erica Belgrave both took deals and agreed to testify against Ivana Pittman, who also allegedly was involved in the incident.

Pierce testified last month that Pittman stuck a gun in Malbranche’s face, telling him, “Get off the money, I’m about to shoot.”

The barrel was touching Malbranche’s head when “a shot went off, came out,” Pierce testified.

But defense lawyer Douglas Rankin caught Pierce in several inconsistencies between her testimony and her previous statements.

A jury acquitted Pittman.

While waiting to testify against Pittman, Pierce was held in the Nassau County jail, where she was arrested for allegedly possessing a makeshift weapon, an apparent violation of her plea deal.