People v. Vargas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J), rendered August 2, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence that, following an unspecified 911 call, defendant was arrested at a store in Brooklyn with an air pistol in his waistband that resembled the weapon used in the two store robberies of which defendant was convicted. Defendant…