People v. Reddick

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J., at suppression hearing; Herbert Altman, J., at trial and sentence), rendered March 18, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15 [3]) and sentencing him, as a violent predicate felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 7 Vz to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant accosted Daisy Carbajal in an elevator and, holding a 9-inch-long knife to her throat, tore at chains around her neck, and then fled as she screamed. Carbajal, who had been wearing two…