People v. Sheffield

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Felig, J.), rendered October 16, 1990, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, burglary in the first degree, and criminal *257possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered to be preceded by an independent source hearing. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

At the conclusion of the pretrial Wade hearing, at which the complainant did not testify, the court ruled that the…