Defendant was charged within a period of 10 days in 1971 with carrying out eight separate robberies in three separate housing projects in the same general area of Manhattan. In each case the assailant boarded an elevator with the victim or victims and used a butcher knife to obtain money before fleeing. All of the eight distinct robbery incidents in 29 counts were included in one trial. While a strong argument can be made that the denial of the motion to sever was an abuse...
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