People v. Santana

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen G. Crane, J.), rendered December 5, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts each of robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 to 16 years for the first degree convictions and 4 to 8 years for the second degree convictions, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence at trial established that four men descended on complainants Guzman and Balbuena as they were about to enter their apartment building. Guzman positively identified defendant as the man holding a…