People v. Owens

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J., at suppression hearing; Brenda Soloff, J., at plea and sentence), rendered on August 7, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree (Penal Law § 220.18), and sentencing him as a second felony offender to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 6 years to life, is unanimously reversed, on the law, and the motion to suppress physical evidence and statements is granted, and the indictment is dismissed. The matter is remitted to the trial court for…