People v. Saunders

Judgment of Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J., at hearing, trial and sentence), rendered December 1, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a 6-to-12-year prison term, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was charged with robbery and possession of a weapon after he allegedly attacked, with a razor, security *785guards who had observed defendant place store merchandise under his jacket. After the jury had been charged, on the second day of deliberations, before the defendant was produced…