People v. Grant

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Broomer, J.), rendered January 3, 1990, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*897Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The record demonstrates that, during the direct examination of the prosecution witnesses and over the protestations of the defense counsel, the Trial Justice repeatedly assumed the function of a prosecutor so as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial and…