People v. Douglas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Albert P. Williams, J.), rendered March 17, 1987, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as a violent felony offender, to an indeterminate term of from 1 Vz to 4 Vi years’ imprisonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.-

As conceded by the People, it was error for the Trial Justice, at the conclusion of his charge and over defense objection, to give the jury written copies of the portion of his charge which recounted the indictment and explained the…