People v. Mercado

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Browne, J.), rendered November 4, 1982, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.

Several errors committed by the trial court served to deny the defendant his right to a fair triad, and, accordingly, a new trial is required.

*620At the trial, two photographs depicting the defendant posing with two handguns were admitted into evidence. Even the…