Opinion
13266, 2469/10.
10-21-2014
The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard BLACK, Defendant–Appellant.
Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alexander Michaels of counsel), for respondent.
Center for Appellate Litigation, New York (Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Alexander Michaels of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Cassandra Mullen, J.), rendered January 26, 2011, as amended, February 14, 2011 and May 20, 2011, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of four years, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant, who was convicted of attempted second-degree robbery under the theories of being aided by another person actually present (Penal Law § 160.10 [1 ] ), and displaying what appeared to be a firearm (Penal Law § 160.10[2] [b] ), only challenges his conviction under the aided-by-another-person theory. Defendant's legal sufficiency claim is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits. We also find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v. Danielson, 9 N.Y.3d 342, 348–349, 849 N.Y.S.2d 480, 880 N.E.2d 1 [2007] ). The evidence established that defendant was aided by two persons who positioned themselves so as to “intimidate the victim and be ready to render immediate assistance” to defendant (Matter of Fabian J., 103 A.D.3d 564, 960 N.Y.S.2d 94 [1st Dept.2013] ).
We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
TOM, J.P., RENWICK, MOSKOWITZ, RICHTER, KAPNICK, JJ., concur.