People v. Shine

Judgment unanimously reversed on the law, motion granted and indictment dismissed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree following a bench trial. The charges arose on January 21, 1989, when, at about 2:00 a.m., two undercover police officers went to the home of one Stanley Robinson to confront him because one month earlier he had sold them powdered sugar instead of cocaine. The officers, who had been drinking beer in a local bar for hours, knocked on the door of…