People v. Seabrook

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered January 5, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 15 years to life and 3V2 to 7 years, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a new trial.

Defendant was convicted on this retrial of charges stemming from an argument on the evening of July 25, 1993, following which the…