People v. Brown

— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lerner, J.), rendered October 14, 1982, convicting him of assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered. No questions of fact have been presented or considered.

Criminal Term erred in permitting the prosecution to question one of the defendant’s alibi witnesses as to her failure to inform the police of evidence which would have exonerated the defendant, without initially determining the good-faith basis for such questioning or holding a…