People v. Briggs

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered May 24, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (three counts), robbery in the second degree (three counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 23 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The hearing court properly denied defendant’s suppression motion. A citizen informant, who the police observed chasing two men on bicycles, told the officers that the men on the bicycles had…