People v. Farez

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Eugene Oliver, Jr., J.), rendered February 6, 2015, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of 3 years, reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

*529Supreme Court improperly limited both defense counsel’s discovery of Rosario material and his ability to cross-examine the police witnesses at trial. The Rosario material in question consisted of police documentation of the arrest of a third party. Supreme…