People v. Borghesi

How courts have described this case

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• upholding two aggravated robbery convictions based on the same criminal conduct because there were two victims and aggravated robbery is a crime intended to protect persons
• “[S]eparate victims can form the basis of multiple counts and convictions for the crimes of menacing and reckless endangerment.”
• robbery statute’s reference to a singular victim suggests that the legislature intended to create a separate offense for each person against whom the defendant uses force and intimidation
• where robber took store's property from two employees in the course of a single robbery, two convictions not multiplicitous because robbery statute intended to protect each person in control of property
• “[j]ust as the common law of robbery emphasizes . . . [w]e have stated that the gravamen of the offense of robbery is the violent nature of the taking.”
• “[T]he remaining consideration is whether the photographs in the array are so limited that the defendant is the only one to match the witness’s description of the perpetrator.” (citing Bernal, 44 P.3d at 191)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).