People v Vellon
2010 NY Slip Op 01177 [70 AD3d 1386]
February 11, 2010
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 31, 2010


The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Felix Vellon, Appellant.

—[*1] The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, Inc., Buffalo (Kristin M. Preve of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Frank A. Sedita, III, District Attorney, Buffalo (Michael J. Hillery of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from a judgment of the Erie County Court (Shirley Troutman, J.), rendered August 8, 2007. The judgment convicted defendant, upon a jury verdict, of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree and burglary in the first degree.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and on the law and a new trial is granted (see People v Cruz, 45 AD3d 1462 [2007]). Present—Scudder, P.J., Centra, Carni and Pine, JJ.