People v. Blackledge

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Efrain Alvarado, J.), rendered April 9, 2013, as amended July 2, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of four years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly granted the prosecutor’s request for a missing witness charge regarding defendant’s mother and girlfriend, who were potential alibi witnesses given defendant’s testimony about his whereabouts at the time of the crime. Each of these witnesses could have been expected to provide material noncumulative testimony (see generally…