People v. Brown

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Finnegan, J.), rendered October 23, 1997, 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 as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant is entitled to a new trial because of errors committed by the court in allowing the introduction into evidence of the $190 taken from him at the time of his arrest, failing to respond meaningfully to the…