People v. Rivera

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered October 13, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to preserve (see, People v Tevaha, 84 NY2d *307879) his current challenges to background evidence concerning certain aspects of the sale and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. Were we to review these claims, we would find that receipt of this limited evidence was an…