People v. Hibbert

Judgment, Su*141preme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered February 19, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of from AV2 to 9 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, the convictions vacated and the matter remanded for a new trial.

In this prosecution for a single street-level sale of crack observed by two Housing Police officers through binoculars, it was reversible error to…