People v. Mitchell

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Browne, J.), rendered August 1, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. Questions of fact have not been raised or considered.

The defendant and the codefendant John Sapp were accused of the robbery of the Pan Am Federal Credit Union at John F. Kennedy Airport on September 19, 1985. A friend of the defendant, Candice Gordon, gave a sworn statement to law enforcement authorities on…