People v. Rivers

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James A. Yates, J., at CPL article 730 proceedings; Ronald A. Zweibel, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered July 14, 2004, convicting defendant of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 15 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court, New York County for a new trial.

The matter was remanded to Supreme Court, New York County for a hearing as to whether defendant was an incapacitated person at the time of his trial (44 AD3d 391 [2007]), and the People failed to…