People v. Rodriguez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered November 7, 1974, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree (Penal Law, § 220.41) and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of six years to life, is unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new trial is directed. In our view, the major error that requires reversal was the failure to accede to defendant’s request for the disclosure of the identity of the confidential informant. In People v Goggins (34 NY2d 163,173), the Court of Appeals said: "In sum the…