People v. McKay

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J.), rendered February 22, 1988, which, after jury trial, convicted defendant of robbery in the second degree (Penal Law § 160.10 [1]) and sentenced him as a predicate felon to 6V2 to 13 years’ incarceration, unanimously affirmed.

This case involved a Times Square area mugging in which defendant and others accosted the victim and one of the men ripped off his gold chain. Defendant said to one of the perpetrators, "if homeboy doesn’t want to give up his chains, hit him.” That perpetrator immediately complied, hitting the victim on the…