Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Frank Oglesby, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-10-16
Citations: 276 A.D.2d 647
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Frank Oglesby, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 276
Pages: 647–648

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Frank Oglesby, Appellant.
[714 NYS2d 894]

Opinion:
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered September 3, 1997, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon 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.
Before the end of the suppression hearing, the defendant, an indigent, requested a copy of the transcript of the suppression hearing. By forcing the defendant to go to trial before he received the entire transcript, the trial court committed reversible error (see, People v Coleman, 81 NY2d 826; People v Sanders, 31 NY2d 463).
We note that the defendant was improperly adjudicated a persistent violent felony offender (see, Penal Law § 70.04 [1] [b]; § 70.08 [1] [a]; People v Morse, 62 NY2d 205).
The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit. Ritter, J. P., H. Miller, Feuerstein and Smith, JJ., concur.