People v. Webb

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered August 21, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2½ to 5 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant was charged with knowingly possessing a Metro-card which had been folded or bent in a particular way such that although the value of the card had been exhausted, a user could obtain one additional free ride. In a pretrial ruling, the…