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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Miguel Rivera, Appellant.
    [633 NYS2d 166]
   —Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George Covington, J.), rendered December 22, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 8⅓ to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. There is no legal requirement that defendant personally possess and use a weapon in the course of a robbery. The evidence established that defendant intentionally aided (Penal Law § 20.00) members of his group who seized one victim’s operable gun and used it against both victims in stealing property (Penal Law § 160.15 [2]).

Defendant’s claim of repugnant verdicts is without merit {People v Tucker, 55 NY2d 1). Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Wallach, Rubin, Kupferman and Mazzarelli, JJ.