People v. Rosado

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered March 13, 1991, 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 to concurrent terms of 5tá to 11 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, the possession count dismissed and the matter remanded for a new trial on the sale count.

Just after the defendant was arrested, he was frisked and a purse, described by that arresting officer as "a…