People v. Katowski

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Juviler, J.), rendered March 24, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s conviction arises from an armed robbery of a jewelry store, in which he was the driver of the getaway car. After Donald Goldston, one of the proprietors of the jewelry store and a former police officer, observed the robber enter the beige car in which the defendant was seated and drive from the scene, Goldston commandeered a nearby…