PEOPLE v. TORRES


72 A.D.2d 754 (1979)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Albert Torres, Also Known as Alberto Muniz, and Jose Gonzalez, Appellants

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

November 5, 1979


Judgments reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.

The defendants were deprived of a fair trial by an accumulation of numerous acts of prosecutorial misconduct and rulings of the court that seriously impaired presentation of the defense. For our purposes, we need focus on only two points, one of which relates to the trial and the other to the Wade hearing which preceded it. During the trial the prosecutrix was...

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