People v. Graham

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered November 16,1979, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, (Penal Law, § 220.18) and resentencing her thereon to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of three years to life, is unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new trial ordered. At the trial, a police officer testified that when defendant was asked with respect to the heroin involved whether she was holding the stuff for someone, she responded, “No, he’ll kill me, he’ll kill me.” At the trial, but not at the…