People v. Joyner

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered October 13, 1994, convicting defendant, after a trial by jury, of robbery in the first and second degrees, assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to concurrent indeterminate terms of imprisonment of 121/2 to 25 years, 71h to 15 years, and two terms of 31h to 7 years, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Complainant Charles James, 87 years old, and the 29 year-old defendant had…