People v. Real

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Dennis Edwards, J.), rendered March 12, 1986, convicting defendant, after trial by jury, of attempted sodomy in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree and sentencing defendant as a second violent felony offender to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years on the attempted sodomy count and 3 to 6 years on the sexual abuse count, is unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Although the trial court was informed that defendant would testify that he was under the influence of marihuana mixed with "angel dust”…