People v. Aharonowicz

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mclnerney, J.), rendered January 16, 1985, convicting him of attempted criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant, who, at the time of trial, was 57 years old with no prior criminal record, was convicted of charges emanating from a police undercover operation in which he was targeted, from the outset, as a "fence” for stolen property. The investigation of the…