People v. Velasquez

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Kleiman, J., at severance motion; Murray Mogel, J., at suppression hearing; Budd Goodman, J., at jury trial), rendered September 27, 1990, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 12 years to life on the robbery count and to time served on the weapon possession count, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence at trial was that 10 days after defendant robbed the complainant at knifepoint, the complainant and a…