People v. Holmes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (McMahon, J.), rendered April 16, 1985, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The statements made by the defendant’s accomplices while in police custody were properly admitted into evidence at the defendant’s trial as declarations against penal interest (see, People v Shortridge, 65 NY2d 309). Further, the admission of the statements under an exception to the hearsay rule when the accomplices…