People v. Poywing

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered November 24, 1986, convicting her of burglary in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

At trial, the defendant moved for a severance of her trial from that of her codefendants on the ground that the admission of her codefendants’ oral and videotaped confessions, *811which implicated her in the crimes, would constitute a violation of her right to…