Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered.
In our view, a number of errors, which we hereafter chronicle, combined to deprive defendant of his right to a fair trial. Defendant was accused of murdering one Delaine Pearsall on June 1, 1973. At the trial Linda Ryals, the victim's mother, testified that she lived with her four children and her brother, Lonnie Brown, in an apartment at 3511 Mermaid Avenue...
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