People v. Medina

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (David Stadtmauer, J.), rendered May 4, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a *549term of 10 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of eight years, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant did not preserve his present challenge to the portion of the court’s jury instruction on robbery that defined the term larceny. Regardless of what defense counsel may have been alluding to in his comments at the end of the…