People v. Pellegrino

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (William Wallace, III, J.), rendered August 4, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 10 years to life and one year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that the court erred in admitting irrelevant evidence of the complainant’s "religious conversion” and his work with a Christian ministry. We find, contrary to the People’s argument, that this claim has been…