People v. Ward

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Andrias, J.), rendered November 18, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of robbery in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 41/2 to 9 years on the robbery in the second degree convictions, to run consecutively to a term of 2 to 4 years on robbery in the third degree conviction, unanimously modified, on the facts, to vacate one of the concurrent 41/2 to 9 year terms, and otherwise affirmed.

The sentencing court’s refusal to hold a hearing in connection with…