People v. Gant

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered March 24, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to respective concurrent prison terms of 71/2 to 15 years and 1 year, unanimously reversed, on the law, the sentences vacated and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The landlord victim, who lived on the second floor of the building, was beaten with a blunt instrument during a confrontation with defendant and his girlfriend, who shared a ground-floor apartment.…