People v. Flores

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lane, J.), rendered July 12, 1984, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment reversed, on the law, and indictment dismissed, without prejudice to the People to re-present any appropriate charges to another Grand Jury.

Error was committed when in directing the readback of the testimony of a key prosecution witness the trial court ordered *755the deletion of the portion of the testimony where the witness was impeached through use of his Grand Jury testimony.

When the…