People v. Moore

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered March 24,1994, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 18 years to life, reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a new trial.

Defendant was charged with two counts of robbery in the first degree stemming from two separate, knifepoint robberies on January 22, 1993, committed in Central Park. In a pre-trial Sandoval hearing, the People sought permission to elicit that defendant had…