People v. Velez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ivan Warner, J., at hearing, trial and sentence), rendered April 2, 1986, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from 4 to 12 years and 3 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Immediately after the robbery, the complainant went to the police station, where he provided detailed descriptions of the two perpetrators, including a description of a male Hispanic wearing a dark sweatshirt with a hood pulled over his head. From a…