People v. Martinez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant has been convicted of robbery, first degree, as a result of his armed hold up of a cafe during which he threatened to shoot the cashier, Efraim Gonzalez. After defendant fled the cafe Gonzalez immediately ran into the street where he saw his manager, Nelson Aleman, and told him of the crime. Aleman had seen defendant in the cafe a few minutes earlier and when he spotted him again, across the street, he *939chased him into the subway and onto a train. Aleman then summoned a transit police officer who…