People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered December 1, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 71/2 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

We reject defendant’s contentions that the evidence presented at trial was legally insufficient to prove the force element of robbery and that the jury’s verdict was against the weight of the evidence on that issue. At trial, the complainant testified that he approached his car and found defendant sitting in the passenger seat with…