People v. Rivers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Spodek, J.), rendered June 21, 1983, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
The testimony of Robin Matos and John Pringle, the principal prosecution witnesses, established that sometime during the late evening hours of September 15,1978 and the early morning hours of September 16,1978, they were talking outside of an all-night grocery store named…
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