People v. Rivera
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford Scott, J.), rendered October 25, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. We find no reason to disturb the jury’s credibility determinations.
As we held under similar facts in People v Mays (232 AD2d 332), defendant’s claims regarding the court’s…
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