People v. Castillo

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was indicted for various crimes, including criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and two counts of robbery in the first degree under Penal Law § 160.15 (4), arising out of a robbery of a known drug dealer in Manhattan.

Penal Law § 160.15 provides that “[a] person is guilty of robbery in the first degree when he forcibly steals property and when, in the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight therefrom, he or another participant in the crime” commits…