
    The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Robert Crawford, Appellant.
    [654 NYS2d 288]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.), rendered March 9, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling was a proper exercise of discretion. Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Williams, JJ.  