Court Opinion

ID: 5803281
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:32:03.240965+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:38.227146
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Appeal bydefendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County, rendered March 26, 1975, convicting him of the crime of attempted robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of *562discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. Defendant was denied a fair trial because (1) reference was made in the prosecutor’s opening and closing remarks to a pretrial identification which had been suppressed upon consent of the prosecutor; (2) the trial court permitted testimony of that pretrial identification to be received in evidence; and (3) the trial court received in evidence an admission by a codefendant who did not testify, which admission implicated the defendant (Bruton v United States, 391 US 123). Rabin, Acting P. J., Hopkins, Latham, Margett and Christ, JJ., concur.