State v. Armstrong

OPINION

POPOVICH, Chief Judge.

Appellant Robert Armstrong was convicted by a jury of simple robbery in violation of Minn.Stat. § 609.24 (1982). On appeal, he contends the evidence was legally insufficient to justify his conviction, that at the very least his conviction should be reduced to attempted simple robbery, and that the sentence should be reduced from 46 to 23 months. We disagree and affirm.

FACTS

In the late evening of February 23, 1983, Sergeant David Niebur of the Minneapolis Police Department operated as a decoy in an effort to reduce the number of street robberies in downtown…