Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York June 14, 1999 (People v. Pointer)

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Roman, J.), rendered July 22, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale 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 as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and a new trial is ordered.