People v. Bethea

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Bart Stone, J., at hearing; Arlene R. Silverman, J, at jury trial and sentence), rendered May 1, 2008, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of four years, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, and the indictment dismissed.

At the hearing on the motion to suppress, Police Officer Tawee Theantong and Sergeant Frank O’Shea testified as follows: On June 20, 2007, they were assigned to the Housing Bureau…