Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the conviction of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that count of the indictment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant was apprehended after a police officer witnessed him engage in what appeared to the officer to be a drug deal. As police officers were arresting the defendant, they
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