People v. Hill

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Naro, J.), rendered November 26, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant was arrested in a “buy and bust” operation after allegedly selling crack cocaine to an undercover police officer. On appeal, he contends that the trial court committed reversible error by refusing…