People v. Hicks

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lonschein, J.), rendered October 18,1982, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him as a persistent violent felony offender. Judgment affirmed. We note that the persistent violent felony offender statutes (Penal Law, §§ 70.02, 70.04,70.08), as applied to defendant, do not violate the ex post facto clause of section 10 of article I of the United States…