People v. Nelson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Appelman, J.), rendered May 13, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On October 27, 1990, the defendant entered a restaurant in Rego Park and threatened the employees with a hypodermic needle, claiming that the needle contained the AIDS virus. The defendant held the complaining witness by the right elbow and, touching the hypodermic needle to her arm, threatened to…