People v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Savarese, J.), rendered April 15, 1981, convicting him of two counts of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
*178Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
In this closely contested prosecution, where the crux of the People’s case revolved around the identification testimony of the complainant, we conclude that several aspects of the trial combined to deprive the defendant of a fair trial despite the legal sufficiency of…
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