The court should have granted defendant's request to charge third-degree robbery as a lesser included defense of first-degree robbery. The court's first-degree robbery charge, consistent with the indictment, required the People to prove that defendant used or threatened to use a knife; it is undisputed that a finding that defendant wielded some weapon or object other than a knife would not support first-degree robbery in this case. There was a reasonable view of the evidence...
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