People v. Simmons

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred H. Kleiman, J., on severance mo*96tion; Franklin R. Weissberg, J., at suppression hearings and jury trial), rendered April 14, 1989, convicting defendant of four counts of robbery in the first degree and three counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to terms of imprisonment aggregating 15 to 30 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was indicted for four separate robberies committed in a park during daylight hours. In all four robberies, the victims were walking through the park when confronted by…