Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 10, 1997 (People v. Gaines)

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cooperman, J.), rendered March 29, 1994, 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.