People v. Gronachan

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Greene County (Battisti, Jr., J.), rendered April 25, 1989, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree.

Defendant stood trial and was found guilty by a jury of selling approximately one half of a gram of cocaine to an undercover police officer in the Town of Catskill on February 22, 1987. When the jury announced its verdict defendant attempted to bolt from the courtroom and had to be restrained. In addition, after the verdict County Court received a letter from a friend of…