An appellate court in Albany has upheld a gun-related robbery conviction in a case where the defendant did not reveal the weapon to the victim but did point it at a man pursuing him.
The Appellate Division, Third Department, unanimously held that even though the robbery victim was not directly threatened, and even though the weapon may have been a BB gun and not a firearm, the Montgomery County verdict against Nelson Colon stands.
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