People v. Maldonado

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Edward M. Davidowitz, J.), rendered October 23, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (two counts) and robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years, 25 years and 3Va to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The prosecutor’s summation comment concerning the relationship between the two robberies for which defendant was being tried, and the trial court’s jury instruction on this subject, were proper in light of the similarities between…