People v. Szwec

—Judgment, *323Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert Straus, J.), rendered April 13, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, the judgment vacated, and the matter remanded to Supreme Court for a new trial.

The trial court denied defendant’s right to a fair trial when it limited defendant’s testimony as to his prior civil suit against the City of New York and…