People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.), rendered April 21, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]) and sentencing him as a second violent felony offender (CPL 400.15) to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 12lá years to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

On the afternoon of September 17, 1986, the defendant entered a business establishment on the twelfth floor of 1560 Broadway in Manhattan and with his hand "bunched” in his pocket and pointed forward, passed a note to the sole employee in the office.…