People v. Cepeda

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cohen, J.), rendered September 5, 1995, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion, and a new trial is ordered.

Approximately three weeks after the jury rendered its verdict in this case, the defendant moved to set…