People v. Manuel

255 A.D.2d 118, 678 N.Y.S.2d 895, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11619

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J.), rendered March 22, 1995, convicting defendant, after a trial by jury, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 4 to 8 years in prison, unanimously reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant’s conviction should be reversed in the interest of justice for the reasons set forth in our decisions reversing the convictions of his codefendants, i.e., People v Medina (242 AD2d 504) and People v Rivera (239 AD2d 171). Concur — Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Rubin, JJ.