People v. Blanding

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J., at suppression hearing; Roger S. Hayes, J., at jury trial and sentencing), rendered June 23, 2006, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of four years, unanimously reversed, on the law, the motion to suppress granted, and the matter remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings, as appropriate.

During a buy and bust operation, a ghost undercover detective issued a radio transmission identifying defendant…