Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York September 10, 2001 (People v. Jade)

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Blumenfeld, J.), rendered March 10, 1999, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. This appeal brings *689up for review the denial, after a hearing (O’Dwyer, J.H.O., at hearing, and Buchter, J.