People v. Martinez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered July 1, 1999, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of burglary in the first degree, robbery in the first degree (two counts), endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to three terms of 15 years and three terms of 1 year, all to run concurrently, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence of uncharged crimes was properly admitted. The other robberies were sufficiently similar to the instant crime to be probative of…