People v. Collins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard J. Fried, J.), rendered June 24, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in precluding, as unduly speculative, evidence of a supposed pattern of robberies in the area of the instant robbery, allegedly committed by a single, unidentified robber not meeting defendant’s description, since there was nothing linking the other robberies with the instant robbery, and nothing to indicate that the…