Submitted January 9, 1978 Decided February 22, 1978 Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, EDWARD S. LENTOL, J. Robert S. Katz and William E. Hellerstein for appellant. Eugene Gold, District Attorney (Cynthia Kean of counsel), for respondent. MEMORANDUM. The order should be affirmed. The role of a Trial Judge in a criminal case is not merely that of an observer or even that of a referee enforcing the rules of a game (see People v De Jesus, 42 N
Argued April 28, 1999 Decided June 10, 1999 Norman A. Olch, for appellant. Donald H. Zuckerman, for respondent. CIPARICK, J.: Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of a total of 21 counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance, criminal possession of a controlled substance and failure to label a prescription drug. The convictions under four of those counts were subsequently vacated, due to an erroneous jury charge. The primary