Opinion
1999-09338
Submitted September 23, 2002.
October 15, 2002.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), rendered October 1, 1999, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (four counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Schwed Zucker, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (David Zucker of counsel), for appellant, and appellant pro se.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Ushir Pandit of counsel), for respondent.
Before: SONDRA MILLER, J.P., WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, STEPHEN G. CRANE, REINALDO E. RIVERA, JJ.
ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
The defendant is entitled to a new trial for the reasons stated in People v. Yattang Ng, 298 A.D.2d 470 (decided herewith).
The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are without merit.
S. MILLER, J.P., FRIEDMANN, CRANE and RIVERA, JJ., concur.