People v. Brown

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Irene J. Duffy, J.), rendered April 4, 1990, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of robbery in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of imprisonment of 2 Vi to 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s conviction arises out of his arrest for forcibly taking a purse and personal belongings therein from the person of a complainant who died from an unrelated cause prior to the hearing and trial herein. The robbery was witnessed by the complainant’s 11 year old son, who was walking with his mother at the time in…