People v. Wright

Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered March 21, 1973, convicting defendants, after a jury trial, of criminally selling a dangerous drug in the third degree, unanimously reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice and a new trial, preceded by a Wade hearing, directed. Defendants were charged with selling narcotics to an undercover policewoman who had been introduced to defendant Wright at a Bronx housing project by a "registered” informant known as "Bellbottoms”. According to the officer, she, Bellbottoms and both defendants proceeded by car to an…