People v. Smith

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Meyerson, J.), rendered August 22, 1994, convicting him of criminal , possession of a weapon in the third degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree, and menacing in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

While the absence of a stenographic record does not, per se, require reversal, a defendant’s conviction will be reversed if he can show that he has been prejudiced by its absence (see, People v Harrison, 85…