People v. Shabazz

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Scott, J.), rendered July 8, 1982, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree (four counts) and robbery in the second degree (four counts) and sentencing him as a persistent violent felony offender to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 25 years to life, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reversing the sentence, vacating the same, remanding the matter for resentence and, except as thus modified, affirmed.

With commendable candor the People concede that they failed to provide defendant with a copy of the persistent…