People v. Veneziano

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Meyer-son, J.), rendered September 3, 1985, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment is granted, the indictment is dismissed and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50.

The defendant Ernest Veneziano, and his codefendant, Robert Rabbit, were convicted after a joint…