People v. Feliciano

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J.), rendered April 27, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first and the second degrees, and sentencing defendant to concurrent terms of from 8 to 16 years’ and from 5 to 10 *259years’ imprisonment, respectively, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of dismissing defendant’s conviction for robbery in the second degree and, except as so modified, affirmed.

During a robbery in which defendant stole a gold chain, he punched his victim, Manuel Rivera, in the mouth. Rivera, who had just left…