People v. Tucker

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rose Rubin, J.), convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from three to six years, unanimously reversed, on the law and on the facts, and the matter is remanded to the Supreme Court, New York County, for a new trial.

On March 11, 1988, plainclothes police officers observed defendant, accompanied by James Earl and Dennis White, walking back and forth along the Bowery for a period of about 45 minutes. Earl and White walked up…