People v. Saunders

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), entered June 16, 1989, convicting defendant of attempted robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a violent predicate felony of*285fender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 3 ¥2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that the trial court erred in denying his application that a renunciation charge be submitted to the jury as an affirmative defense. The evidence in this case makes clear that whatever arguable abandonment occurred in defendant’s criminal purpose, it did not manifest voluntary and complete…