People v. Blair

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Failla, J.), rendered May 24, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (four counts), and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to four consecutive terms of imprisonment of fifteen years to life on the first degree robbery counts and a concurrent term of ten years to life on the second degree robbery count, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant, a persistent violent felon and an admitted drug user, was convicted of four separate knifepoint robberies against women,…