People v. Lee

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ruth Pickholz, J.), rendered January 26, 2012, as amended February 24, 2012, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent felony, to a term of six years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant’s constitutional right of confrontation was violated when the court read the transcript of the…