People v. Williams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered July 21, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 25 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 15 years, and otherwise affirmed.

There is no reasonable possibility that the court’s carefully phrased responses to inquiries from a panelist during jury selection could have conveyed to the jury that defendant had a prior record or…