People v. Quinones

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), rendered September 10, 1992, convicting the defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts each of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 8 to 24 years on the first degree robbery counts and 4 to 12 years on the remaining counts, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the case remanded for a new trial.

The trial court committed reversible error during jury selection by refusing to allow defense counsel to withdraw a peremptory challenge (People v Roberts, 215 AD2d…