People v. Rodriguez

*397Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki A. Scherer, J., at summary denial of Mapp/Dunaway motion; William A. Wetzel, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered April 25, 2005, convicting defendant of robbery in the first and second degrees (three counts each), burglary in the first and second degrees and criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 20 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant is entitled to a new trial because the court improperly denied his request for…