People v. Russel

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rose L. Rubin, J.), rendered December 17, 1985, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and grand larceny in the third degree and sentencing him, as a prior felony offender, to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 5 to 10 years for the robbery and 2 to 4 years for the larceny, unanimously affirmed.

At approximately 5:15 a.m. on June 21, 1985, three police officers observed defendant and three male companions run diagonally across 42nd Street in Manhattan, crouch down, and approach a woman who was walking…