People v. Wadley

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Owens, J.), rendered April 30, 1985, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

According to the evidence adduced on behalf of the People, Jose Torres, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, was accosted at 1:30 p.m. by the defendant and two other males whom he had moments before observed standing in the hallway. Torres was grabbed from behind by the neck but upon turning…