People v. Rampersant

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), entered April 12, 1990, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 155.80 [5]), and sentencing him, as a predicate felony offender, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 2 to 4 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, judgment vacated, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a new trial.

This case arose out of a chain-snatching incident which took place in the vicinity of Times Square. The voir dire involved the questioning of three panels of prospective jurors.…