People v. Abney

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Levittan, J.), rendered February 3, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder in the second degree and one count each of burglary in the first degree and robbery in the first degree and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of from 15 years to life on the murder counts and from 5 to 15 years each on the burglary and robbery counts, reversed, on the law, and the indictment dismissed.

Defendant was jointly tried with Terry Angel for the murder of Walter Grant, who was beaten across the head…