People v. Blue
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Beerman, J.), rendered August 18, 1988, convicting him of robbery in the third degree, and grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
In this case based solely upon the identification testimony of a single witness, the defendant was deprived of a fair trial by testimony bolstering the identification by that witness. The complainant, who was the…
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