PEOPLE v. MELERO


79 A.D.2d 686 (1980)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Rigoberto Melero, Also Known as Regusto Melero, and Miguel Melero, Appellant

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

December 22, 1980


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

The joint trial of both defendants was characterized by an excessive intrusion on the part of the Trial Judge into the conduct of the trial, in a manner which tended to usurp the roles of both the prosecutor and the defense attorneys and which tended at times to convey an apparently unfavorable opinion as to the...

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