People v. Barksdale

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rose Rubin, J.), rendered February 22, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree and theft of services and sentencing defendant, as a second felony offender, to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of from 4 to 8 years on each robbery conviction and one year on each remaining conviction, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant and his accomplices, three black males wearing leather jackets, were detained after they had run a subway turnstile.…