People v. Green

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered August 30, 1993, convicting defendant, after a trial by jury, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two indeterminate terms of 9 to 18 years in prison and one term of one year in prison, respectively, all to run concurrently, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

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