People v. Carroll

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, rendered March 29, 1974, convicting the defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a dangerous drug in the third degree, and four counts of criminal possession of a dangerous drug in the fourth degree, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial. The admission into evidence of police file "mug” shots of defendant, which predated the instant offense for which he was charged, could have alerted the jury to the fact that the defendant had a criminal history. (People v Caserta, 19 NY2d 18, 21.) While the…