People v. Free

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cohen, J.), rendered January 6, 1993, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the indictment is dismissed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Queens County for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50.

The defendant was arrested after the car in which he was a passenger was pulled over by two police officers. A search of the vehicle uncovered…