People v. Riley

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Aloise, J.), rendered October 20, 2014, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County, for a new trial.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree in connection with the shooting death of a man outside the…