People v. Felder

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heller, J.), rendered April 6, 1987, convicting him of robbery 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.

The defendant’s conviction arises out of an incident in which the complainant was robbed of his school ring by an assailant who held a knife in his left hand. During the trial the defendant sought to establish through the testimony of his *840mother and sister that he was right handed in an attempt to prove that he could…