People v. Stevens

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Bradley, J.), rendered September 13, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a predicate felony offender, to an indeterminate term of ten to twenty years imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

In this "buy and bust” drug prosecution, defendant’s contention that the contraband was improperly admitted into evidence because the People failed to establish a continuous unbroken chain of custody is devoid of merit. A review of the evidence adduced at trial,…