People v. Pagan

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered January 13, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and fourth degrees, criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from 18 years to life and 2⅓ to 7 years on the drug possession counts and concurrent definite prison terms of one year each on the paraphernalia and weapon counts, unanimously reversed, on the law,…