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p. 118The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Carlos Manuel, Appellant. [678 NYS2d 895]
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leff, J.), rendered March 22, 1995, convicting defendant, after a trial by jury, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 4 to 8 years in prison, unanimously reversed, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial.
Defendant’s conviction should be reversed in the interest of justice for the reasons set forth in our decisions reversing the convictions of his codefendants, i.e., People v Medina ( 242 AD2d 504 ) and People v Rivera ( 239 AD2d 171 ). Concur — Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin and Rubin, JJ.