People v. Pogo

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J., at suppression hearing; John Moore, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered April 3, 1998, convicting defendant of two counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence was sufficient to establish defendant’s guilt of both counts of robbery. Defendant’s intent to appropriate one complainant’s ring “was adequately demonstrated by his stated demand [at gunpoint] that the complainant turn it over, a demand lacking any…