People v. Hall

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Meyerson, J.), rendered February 20, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, grand larceny in the third degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth 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.

Despite the existence of legally sufficient evidence to support the defendant’s conviction of the…