People v. Perez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Friedmann, J.), rendered July 25, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance first degree (three counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by reversing the conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance first degree under the first count of the indictment, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was the subject of a so-called "buy…