People v. Roman

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Murray Myers, J.), rendered May 15, 1987, convicting defendant after jury trial of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing defendant to an indeterminate term of 6 to 12 years’ imprisonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

*306Defendant was indicted and convicted for the sale of three glassine envelopes of heroin to an undercover officer on October 22, 1986. The purchase of the narcotics, which took place on a bench in FDR Park in lower Manhattan, was not filmed or…