People v. Ramashwar

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered October 27, 2000, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

*497We agree with the defendant’s claim that the prosecutor injected the issue of her own credibility into the trial when she questioned two defense witnesses regarding their prior statements to her in a telephone interview. When the witnesses…