People v. Ortiz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered September 8, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 12 to 24 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly modified its Sandoval ruling to *286permit the prosecutor to question defendant with respect to the underlying facts of two prior robbery convictions after he raised the defense of duress (People v Barnett, 169 AD2d 524, 525). Similarly, the trial court properly admitted the…