People v. Ortiz

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J., at suppression hearing, jury trial, and sentence), rendered August 27, 1986, convicting defendant of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree and sentencing defendant to concurrent terms of 2 Vs to 7 years and 2 to 6 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted for his participation in a gang mugging in Washington Heights in which defendant and five others, brandishing pipes, sticks, and other weapons, robbed a solitary pedestrian. A patrol officer immediately apprehended two of the…