People v. Palmer

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Failla, J.), rendered July 20, 1990, convicting defendant after a jury trial of 4 counts of robbery in the second degree, for which he was sentenced as a predicate violent felony offender to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant and two co-defendants robbed the passenger and driver of a parked taxicab. Nearby plainclothes officers, observing the altercation, apprehended the perpetrators, one of whom tossed away the toy gun which was used in the robbery. As the police passed the scene of the incident, they heard…