People v. Angora
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Per curiam
We would not reverse the judgment convicting defendant of the crimes of robbery in the first degree and criminally possessing a pistol on the basis of any one of the several errors committed in the admission of evidence or upon the improper assertions made by the prosecutor in his opening statement to the jury. The aggregate of these errors, however, together with the prejudicial climate created by the prosecutor in pressing technically unobjectionable questions to a point where they and the answers they elicited inevitably suggested inadmissible testimony to the jury, compel a reversal.
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- People v. TrowbridgeNew York Court of Appeals · 1953
- People v. . Jung HingNew York Court of Appeals · 1914
- People v. SpinelloNew York Court of Appeals · 1951
- People v. SarraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1954
- People v. . BertliniNew York Court of Appeals · 1916
3Cited by1 opinion
- People v. RothaarAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980