People v. McKeever

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hayes, J.), rendered August 24,1981, convicting him of robbery in the first degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.

On March 10, 1980, three men committed a robbery at a grocery store located at 734 Dumont Avenue in Brooklyn. A few minutes later, defendant was apprehended several blocks from *609the store and charged with participating…