People v. Lopez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered January 13, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent, indeterminate terms of from 6 to 12 years and 3Vz to 7 years imprisonment, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, the convictions vacated, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

As the People concede, on the authority of People v Taylor (76 NY2d 873), it was error for the trial court, absent the parties’ consent, to submit a…