People v. Barham

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Levittan, J.), rendered April 11, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to two concurrent prison terms of three to nine years, unanimously affirmed.

After defendant and his accomplices pushed the complainant off a train and onto a subway platform, they forcibly stole his gold chain. Since the People presented legally sufficient evidence of the complainant’s "impairment of physical condition”, defendant’s conviction of robbery in the second degree is unassailable (Penal…