People v. Grinage

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County, each rendered April 15, 1974 convicting both defendants after jury trial of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law, § 220.39) as modified with respect to defendant Eddie Meeks by resentence on October 9, 1975 under section 60.08 of the Penal Law, unanimously reversed as to both defendants, on the law, on the facts and in the interest of justice, and a new trial directed. The District Attorney’s summation was inflammatory and the District Attorney did not heed the Trial Judge’s direction to discontinue the objectionable…