People v. Liner

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leon Becker, J., at suppression and trial), rendered September 11, 1985, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the third degree (Penal Law § 160.05) and sentencing him as a predicate felon to an indeterminate term of 3 Vi to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Two plainclothes police officers, on an anticrime patrol in an unmarked car, observed complainant Lopez pursuing defendant on foot along 122nd Street, between Morningside and Manhattan Avenues, at about 10:00 p.m. After placing an illuminated police dome light on the dashboard, they…