People v. Porter

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered February 17, 1994, convicting defendant, after jury trial, 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 concurrent terms of imprisonment of 5 to 10 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remitted to Supreme Court for a new trial.

*276Defendant was arrested for the sale of narcotics to an undercover police officer. At the voir dire, the court…