People v. Randolph

I respectfully dissent. In affirming the Court of Appeals, the majority concludes that this Court has never adopted the “transactional approach” to robbery. Ante at 540. The majority then proceeds *554to overrule more than thirty years of precedent in the Court of Appeals applying this view. In doing so, the majority states that “the force used to accomplish the taking underlying a charge of unarmed robbery must be contemporaneous with the taking.” Ante at 536. The majority concludes that defendant in this case “did not accomplish his taking by use of force, violence, assault, or putting in…