People v. Gilliard

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Leon Becker, J.), rendered December 12, 1985, convicting defendant-appellant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon to an indeterminate term of from 9 to 18 years’ imprisonment, is unanimously modified, on the law, to reduce defendant’s conviction of robbery in the first degree to robbery in the second degree, and is otherwise affirmed, and the matter is remitted to Supreme Court, New York County, for resentencing in accordance herewith.

On March 17, 1985, complainant Hamilton, a lone passenger…