People v. Boose

—Judgment unani*912mously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law § 220.39) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law § 220.16), contending, inter alia, that County Court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial.

Pursuant to the court’s direction, the prosecutor instructed an investigator from the Orleans County Drug Task Force not to refer in his testimony to defendant’s prior parole violation hearing at which that investigator had testified. In…