People v. Green

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George Daniels, J.), rendered May 11, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees and four counts of criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to two concurrent terms of 20 years to life concurrent with four concurrent terms of 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of an uncharged crime. The probative value of the uncharged theft outweighed its prejudicial effect,…