People v. Conto
The People of the State of New York v. Stephen De Conto
Opinion of the Court
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Appeals by the defendant from two judgments of the County Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.), both rendered June 7, 1983, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree under Indictment No. 80-00309-03 and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree under Indictment No. 80-00311-01, upon jury verdicts, and imposing *685 sentences. The appeals bring up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion under Indictment No. 80-00309-03 which was to suppress certain physical evidence.
Ordered that the judgments are reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. The facts have been considered and are determined to have been established.
After the prosecutor indicated to the court that he had completed his peremptory challenges, and while defense counsel was exercising his peremptory challenges, the court permitted the prosecutor to exercise another peremptory challenge. This constituted reversible error (see, CPL 270.15 [2]; People v McQuade, 110 NY 284 ; People v Williams, 26 NY2d 62, 63-64 ; People v Walker, 168 AD2d 470 ; People v McBride, 51 AD2d 554 , 555).
We have considered the defendant’s remaining contentions and find them to be without merit. Mangano, P. J., Kunzeman, Eiber and Balletta, JJ., concur.
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