People v. Chancy

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Solomon, J., on severance motion; Micki Scherer, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered November 7, 1996, convicting defendant of four counts of robbery in the first degree and four counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to four concurrent terms of 8V2 to 17 years concurrent with four concurrent terms of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s severance motion was properly denied. The four robberies involved a sufficiently unique modus operandi so that the evidence of each was admissible as to the others.…