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251 A.D.2d 350
N.Y. App. Div.
1998

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lewis, J.), rendered May 8, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree under the second count in the indictment, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment with leave to the People, should they be so advised, to resubmit any appropriate charges arising out of the conduct underlying that count of the indictment to another Grand Jury; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

We agree with the defendant’s contention that the court’s refusal to specify which drugs were relevant to the second count of the indictment, in response to a question submitted by the jury during deliberations, rendered that count duplicitous (see, People v Payne, 241 AD2d 466; People v Jiminez, 239 AD2d 360).

The defendant’s remaining contentions are without merit or relate to harmless error. Rosenblatt, J. P., Ritter, Sullivan and Goldstein, JJ., concur.

Case Details

Case Name: People v. Jones
Court Name: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Date Published: Jun 1, 1998
Citations: 251 A.D.2d 350; 673 N.Y.S.2d 731; 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6211
Court Abbreviation: N.Y. App. Div.
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