Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Danny Rosa, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-02-08
Citations: 201 A.D.2d 308
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Danny Rosa, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 201
Pages: 308–308

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Danny Rosa, Appellant.
[608 NYS2d 835]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ira Globerman, J., at suppression hearing; William H. Wallace, III, J., at trial and sentence), rendered June 10, 1992, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for new trial.
As the People concede, the trial court erred in refusing to charge the lesser included offense of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, since, viewing the evidence in a light favorable to defendant, it cannot be said that every hypothesis but guilt of the higher crime was excluded (CPL 300.50 [2]; see, People v Johnson, 45 NY2d 546, 550). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Kupferman and Ross, JJ.