People v. Robinson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford Scott, J.), rendered January 9, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of from 12Vá to 25 years, IVz to 15 years, and 1 year, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a new trial.

When, in his opening statement, defense…