People v. Tellier

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Levine, J.), rendered April 2, 1992, convicting him of bribing a witness, tampering with a witness in the third degree, and intimidating a victim or witness in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant’s conviction stems from attempting to bribe and intimidate a confidential informant. Some of the conversations between the defendant and the informant were tape recorded. Outside of the defendant’s presence,…