People v. Lieberman

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Rockland county convicting the defendant of robbery in the first degree while armed, and from an order denying defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict. The record amply supports the conviction and we find no prejudicial error. The sentence, however, was not legal in so far as concerned the minimum thereof. It gave no effect to section 2189 of the Penal Law, which provides that the minimum, where the person sentenced has not previously been convicted, shall not be more than one-half the longest period fixed by law for which the crime is…