People v. Alston

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Rooney, J.), rendered January 12, 2007, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*808Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was charged with committing seven different robberies. With respect to four of those robberies, witnesses testified that the masked perpetrator had robbed them at gunpoint, and placed all the money into a black bag. The People sought to admit evidence of an incident in which the unmasked defendant was caught at the scene of one of the…