People v. Mejia

—Appeals by the defendants from two judgments (one as” to each defendant) of the County Court, Westchester County (Dillon, J.), both rendered August 28, 1997, convicting each of the defendants of burglary in the first degree (two counts), attempted robbery in the first degree (two counts), attempted robbery in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon jury verdicts, and imposing sentences.

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

We find that the defendants were prejudiced by the prosecutor’s violation of the rule…