People v. Bethea

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered August 3, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly refused to permit defendant to testify that he had told the police that the drugs contained in the subject glassine bags were imitations. Defendant argues that these statements were admissible, not for their…