People v. Santiago

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered December 15, 1995, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 2V2 to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Within a minute of a radio transmission reporting that an armed robbery had been committed by a bald white or Hispanic man, wearing a sweatshirt and a brown jacket, the police officers observed defendant, who fit the description, in the vicinity of the crime…