People v. Stegeman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Forman, J.), rendered February 26, 2015, as amended June 18, 2015, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is affirmed.

The County Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 200.20 (3) to sever the two charges in the indictment, which arose from separate incidents on separate dates. The crimes were “the same or similar in law” (CPL 220.20 [2] [c]; see…