People v. Rosario

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert H. Straus, J.), rendered May 14, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

Over objection, the court gave the jury a verdict sheet containing the following counts and parenthetical annotations: (1) robbery in the first degree (forcibly steals property and when, in the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight therefrom, he uses or threatens the immediate use of a dangerous instrument); (2) robbery in the third degree…