People v. Santiago

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Eugene Oliver, J.), rendered August 11, 2014, as amended May 11, 2016 and April 28, 2017, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to an aggregate term of 20 years, unanimously reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

As in cases such as People v Velez (131 AD3d 129 [1st Dept 2015]), the court’s charge failed to convey that an acquittal on the…