People v. Moye

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mullen, J.), rendered October 6, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover police officer in Suffolk County. In connection with that alleged sale he was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree…