People v. Cartagena

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, dated July 18, 1977, convicting defendant after a jury trial of sexual abuse in the first degree, robbery in the first degree, and burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of 3 1/2 to 7 and 12 1/2 to 25 years to run consecutively to a 10- to 20-year term earlier imposed for a different conviction, unanimously reversed, on the facts, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial. The jury commenced deliberations at 12:27 in the afternoon. At 5:45 they reported…