People v. Brooks

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered April 4, 1978, convicting defendant on his plea of guilty to robbery in the first degree and, on adjudicating defendant a predicate felony offender, imposing an indeterminate sentence of 8 to 16 years, modified, on the law, to vacate the sentence and defendant’s adjudication as a predicate felony offender, and the matter remanded for resentence, and otherwise affirmed. Defendant was sentenced as a predicate felon on the basis of a Florida conviction for grand larceny. The Florida statute made it a felony to steal property with a value equal to…