Ordered that the judgment is reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.
The victim, Christian Rivera, his friend, Jose Torres, and Torres' girlfriend, Alexandra Schwoerer, were walking along Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the evening of December 5, 2011, when Rivera was beckoned by a stranger
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