People v. Buggsward

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County *866Court, Suffolk County (Braslow, J.), rendered August 11, 2009, convicting him of burglary in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the first degree (four counts), criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and resisting arrest, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant and his codefendant, Bernard Brothers, were jointly tried for offenses arising from a home invasion. The defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his…