People v. Colon

261 A.D.2d 287, 688 N.Y.S.2d 886, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5475

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Rettinger, J.), rendered September 5, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of one count of robbery in the second degree and two counts of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years and 3x/2 to 7 years, consecutive to a term of 3V2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Brief and limited background testimony concerning one of the arresting officer’s service with the Emergency Services Unit could not have deprived defendant of a fair trial. Concur— Sullivan, J. P., Williams, Rubin, Andidas and Friedman, JJ.