People v. Wright

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Nelson, J.), rendered April 23, 1996, convicting him of promoting gambling in the first, degree (four counts), possession of gambling records in the first degree, and possession of a gambling device, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reversing the conviction of possession of a gambling device, vacating the sentence imposed thereon and dismissing that count of the indictment with leave to the District Attorney to seek an order permitting resubmission of…