People v. Vasquez

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (McShane, J.), rendered April 17, 1980, convicting him of murder in the second degree (felony murder) and robbery in the first degree, *620upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence: Judgment modified, on the law, by reducing the conviction of robbery in the first degree to one of attempted robbery in the first degree and vacating the sentence imposed thereon. As so modified, judgment affirmed, and case remitted to Criminal Term for resentencing on the reduced conviction. The evidence at trial, both direct and circumstantial,…