People v. Mohammed

Appeals by the defendants, respectively, from two judgments (one as to each defendant) of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Chambers, J., at trial; J. Goldberg, J., at sentencing), both rendered June 9, 2008, convicting each of them of burglary in the first degree, upon jury verdicts, and imposing sentences.

Ordered that the judgments are reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendants, Shafiq Mohammed and Javed Khalid, along with codefendants Sada Hussain and Azad Malik, were each convicted, after a joint trial, of…