People v. Ford

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be modified by reinstating defendant’s conviction for first-degree robbery and remitting to that court for consideration of the facts (see CPL 470.25 [2] [d]; 470.40 [2] [b]), and, as so modified, affirmed.

A grand juiy returned a single indictment charging defendant Alfred Ford with first-degree robbery and lesser offenses related to two successive robberies in May 2004 in elevators of residential buildings on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Before trial, defen*877dant unsuccessfully sought to sever the trials of the two crimes…