Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 9, 2002 (People v. Thomas)

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered May 2, 2001, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts), criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing