People v. Gamble

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Berkowitz, J.), rendered March 15, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a *688new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

The defendant was arrested after selling two vials of cocaine to an undercover officer during a "buy and bust” operation. The Sergeant who supervised this operation testified at the trial that he took notes of the operation and…