People v. Rodriguez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Blumenfeld, J.), rendered March 13, 2015, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, and menacing in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The complainant testified that the defendant, whose name he did not know, but with whom he had spoken briefly on several prior occasions, approached him in a bodega to ask for a $380 loan, offering to give him a cell phone as collateral. The complainant agreed and went home to get the…