People v. Sims

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered June 9, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and three counts of menacing in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 12V2 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court did not undermine defendant’s efforts to call his codefendant as a witness. Prior to defendant’s trial, the codefendant pleaded guilty in return for a promised lenient sentence that was scheduled to be imposed after defendant’s trial. At the time of…