People v. Ellis

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Andrias, J.), rendered October 27, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the first degree, attempted robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and assault in the second degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 to 14 years and 3 to 6 years (four times), respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s explanation to the jury that it was submitting lesser included offenses because there was "sufficient evidence to…