People v Escalera
2006 NY Slip Op 02307 [27 AD3d 379]
March 28, 2006
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 17, 2006


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
William Escalera, Appellant.

[*1]Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J.), rendered March 3, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490 [1987]). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning identification and credibility. The victim made a reliable identification almost immediately after the crime.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Sullivan, Williams, Gonzalez and Catterson, JJ.