Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, after a jury trial, and sentenced to a term of from 25 years to life imprisonment.
We agree with defendant's principal appellate contention that it was error to admit into evidence over objection the hearsay statement of an unidentified onlooker that the "person wanted for the shooting that had just taken place" had run into a store-front church — a church in which defendant was shortly thereafter located...
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