People v. Collins

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Balter, J.), rendered February 16, 2012, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the defendant’s conviction of robbery in the first degree to a conviction of robbery in the second degree, and vacating the sentence imposed on that count; as so modified,…