People v. Stokes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Appelman, J.), rendered November 18, 1988, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On July 23, 1987, at approximately 6:30 p.m., the defendant accosted four youths on a street in Queens and accused them of robbing his young nephew. Threatening to shoot the youths, the defendant, who was on a bicycle, ordered them to follow him, and the boys complied. After traveling several blocks, the defendant ordered his victims to…