People v. Hazel

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (D’Amaro, J.), rendered April 10, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

It was established during the plea allocution that the defendant forcibly stole a quantity of United States currency from a bank after passing the teller a note in which he demanded money and declared that he had a gun. In addition to the threatening note, the defendant carried a portfolio in which he kept his hand throughout the course of the…