People v. Douglas

Judgment, *459Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered August 17, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 13 years and 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s request for a missing witness charge as to the estranged girlfriend of the victim. The court correctly concluded that this witness was not under the People’s control for purposes of a missing witness charge (see…