Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.
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,
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