People v. Piper

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered April 11, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant made only generalized objections to testimony that store security personnel had been warned to watch him while he was in the store because he had previously been fired from his position as a store employee, defendant failed to preserve his present claim that such testimony constituted inadmissible hearsay, and…