People v. Richardson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J., at suppression hearing; Bruce Allen, J., at trial), rendered October 27, 2011, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree and robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

On the afternoon of Friday, January 11, 2008, defendant and one or more accomplices robbed and killed the 69-year-old victim inside her apartment in the Wagner Houses, in Harlem. The body was discovered by the victim’s…