Despite finding plenty of evidence that Antoine Singleton committed a double murder in Queens and tried to kill two others, an appellate panel on Wednesday reversed his conviction because of a prosecutor’s persistent misconduct.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Second Department, said in People v. Singleton, 500/06, that regardless of well-settled law that the confession of a non-testifying codefendant is not admissible at a joint trial, and despite admonitions by the trial judge, Queens Senior Assistant District Attorney Patrick O’Connor repeatedly misused the codefendant’s confession to implicate Antoine “Live” Singleton in the 2005 shootings.
