People v. Byrd

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered March 28, 1988, by which defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of bribery in the third degree and sentenced to a term of 3 to 6 years in prison, unanimously reversed, on the law, the facts and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and the matter is remanded for a new trial.

The main issues to be determined by the jury on the trial of this indictment were raised by defendant’s affirmative defense of entrapment (Penal Law § 40.05; People v McGee, 49 NY2d 48, cert denied 446 US 942), as to which he bore…