People v. Paniaqua

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered January 13, 1988, convicting the defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree (Penal Law § 220.21 [1]) and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree (Penal Law § 220.50 [1]) and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 22 years to life on the possession count and one year on the drug paraphernalia count, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant contends that he was deprived of his constitutional right to…