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PEOPLE v. MEJIAS

72 A.D.2d 570 (1979)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Elba Mejias, Appellant

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

October 15, 1979

Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.

Defendant was denied a fair trial by various acts of prosecutorial misconduct. Among the errors committed were the use of an unnecessarily and unwarranted inflammatory summation (see People v Dennis, 62 A.D.2d 1022; People v Reyes, 64 A.D.2d 657<...

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