People v. James

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered March 16, 1989, convicting him of rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the second degree, and coercion in the first degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

*596Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We agree with the defendant that the prosecutor was improperly permitted, over defense counsel’s objection, to elicit from the investigating detective that the defendant and his codefendant had been arrested on an unspecified charge in…