People v. Matos

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered May 2, 1973, convicting him of criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a dangerous drug in the sixth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. The record demonstrates that defendant was deprived of his right to a fair trial by the trial court’s constant and unrelenting interjection into all aspects of *904the proceedings, to the…