People v. Whitney

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered December 9, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, burglary in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In this case, the defendant was accused of breaking into a store and robbing its owners with a knife. Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the Supreme Court’s Sandoval ruling (see, People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), was a provident exercise of its discretion…