People v. Patterson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered September 22, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

It was not an improvident exercise of discretion for the court to deny the defendant’s request for additional peremptory challenges (see, People v Campo, 156 AD2d 375; People v Rivera, 137 AD2d 634). In addition, contrary to the defendant’s…