People v. Montgomery

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Murray Mogel, J.), rendered May 12, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of robbery in the first degree, one count of attempted robbery in the first degree, and two counts of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a predicate violent felony offender, to concurrent and consecutive indeterminate prison terms totaling 22 to 44 years, unanimously affirmed.

From October 1986 to March 1987, defendant committed a series of knifepoint robberies in the elevators of midtown Manhattan office buildings, sometimes…