Legal Opinion
People v. Jones
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 9, 1989PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Bellacosa, J.
The People appeal from an order of the Appellate Division *429reversing a conviction after jury trial for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and dismissing the indictment. The decisional ground was insufficiency of the proof that the 10 sold Darvocet tablets were a criminally forbidden controlled substance. We agree with the Appellate Division that the People failed to provide sufficient evidence, through its expert chemist witness or otherwise, that the tablets at issue consisted of or were chemically equivalent to the controlled…
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