People v. Leggett

*861Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert A. Neary, J.), rendered May 13, 2009, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of SVa years, unanimously reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial before a different justice.

Defendant was convicted of an attempted gunpoint carjacking. There was a single eyewitness to that crime, Stephen Campbell, who owned the car, a Nissan SUy and managed to escape in his vehicle. There was a completed carjacking…