Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
The defendant, a black man, was arrested by three white undercover police officers after they approached him on the street in a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood and observed him place his hand on the butt of a gun secreted in his waistband. The defendant was subsequently charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree...
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