PEOPLE v. AKBAR

2015-08494. Ind. No. 3076/14.

169 A.D.3d 708 (2019)

93 N.Y.S.3d 366

2019 NY Slip Op 00894

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Waheed Akbar, Appellant.

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

Decided February 6, 2019.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant slashed his roommate across the neck and stabbed him in the abdomen with a large kitchen knife during a physical altercation in their apartment. At the trial, the Supreme Court submitted to the jury the charges of attempted murder in the second degree, two counts of assault...

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