People v. Buie

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Corriero, J.), rendered June 30, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 and 4 to 8 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The statements provided by one of defendant’s accomplices to the robbery, who clearly possessed personal knowledge of what had occurred, and which, when made, were against the accomplice’s penal interest (see, People v McCann, 85 NY2d 951), and independently corroborated by information provided by the complainant (see,…