People v. Billups

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered March 16, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree, after a jury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence imposed on the defendant’s conviction of robbery in the first degree from 12V¿ to 25 years’ imprisonment to 8 to 16 years’ imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The record demonstrates that the defendant failed to establish…