People v. Young

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J., on motion; John Cataldo, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered October 2, 2002, convicting defendant of robbery in the first and second degrees and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 17 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence warranted the conclusion that defendant’s display of the knife constituted, in part, a threat that…