People v. Rodriguez

—Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Juviler, J.), entered February 20, 1990, which granted the defendant’s motion to set aside a verdict convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, based upon alleged prosecutorial misconduct during summation.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, the motion is denied, the verdict is reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for further proceedings consistent herewith.

Following the jury’s rendition of a verdict of guilty, the Supreme Court set…