PEOPLE v. JOHNSON


30 A.D.2d 575 (1968)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Lee I. Johnson, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 27, 1968


Judgment reversed, on the law, and a new trial ordered. The findings of fact are affirmed.

In our opinion, the prosecutor in his cross-examination of defendant improperly read from segments of defendant's concededly inadmissible statement which were not collateral to the issues at bar and were probative of the requisite ingredients of the crime for which defendant was on trial. (Walder v. United States, 347 U.S. 62; Tate v...

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