People v. Cabrera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered November 21, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the *317third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously modified, on the law, the conviction for criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree vacated and that charge remanded for a new trial, and otherwise affirmed.

An undercover officer observed defendant hand a…