People v. Hines

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered November 8, 1990, 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 third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously *275reversed, on the law and the facts, and the matter is remanded for a new trial.

The defendant was arrested as the result of a buy and bust operation. During the trial there were several occasions on which one or more of the…