People v. Garland

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Murphy, J.), rendered July 1, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

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

In this case resulting from two separate sales of controlled substances, the defendant maintains that…