People v. Cullen

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County, rendered September 9, 1976, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law, indictment dismissed and case remitted to the County Court, Nassau County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50. Defendant agreed in Nassau County to assist a confidential informant in obtaining several pounds of peyote. Defendant, the informant, and a Nassau County undercover officer then drove…