People v. Williams

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Broomer, J.), rendered February 22, 1990, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The record reveals that during the trial of this single eyewitness case, the complainant repeatedly indicated that he did not see his assailants in the courtroom. When the prosecutor asked the witness whether he could see well enough from the stand, the…