People v. Felton

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The Appellate Division has reversed and ordered a new trial on 30 of the 34 counts in the indictment. As conceded by the prosecutor, the Trial Judge had erred in failing to charge the jury on the corroboration requirement for accomplice testimony. The Appellate Division determined that four of the counts were firmly supported by independent evidence and that there was no basis for upsetting the verdict as to those four counts.

We agree that four counts on which defendant remains convicted, the only aspect of…