People v. Craig

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J.), rendered April 10, 1991, after a jury trial, convicting defendant of three counts of robbery in the first degree and one count of attempted robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him to three consecutive terms of 9 to 18 years, to run concurrent with a term of 2 to 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant perpetrated three subway robberies, and attempted a fourth in the same vicinity on the same line, within a close time span, in three of which he used a meat cleaver. He was apprehended immediately after two…