People v. Rivera

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Harbater, J.), rendered May 23, 1991, convicting him of robbery in the second degree (two counts), assault in the second degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On August 10, 1990, the complainant was walking with her mother on 56th Avenue in Queens when the defendant and another man grabbed her pocketbook. The defendant cut the strap of the bag with a knife and punched the complainant’s mother in the…