People v. Lanfranco

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered May 12, 1989, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from four to twelve years unanimously held in abeyance and the matter is remitted for a Wade hearing.

The indictment charged defendant with selling heroin to an undercover police officer on August 4, 1988. The "confirmatory” identification of defendant by the undercover officer, to ascertain whether other officers had arrested the…