People v. Diana

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George Daniels, J.), rendered April 25, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of lVs to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying *150defendant’s motion for a mistrial made on the ground that the prosecutor asked him two improper drug-related questions during cross-examination, since the court sustained the objections to the questions before defendant answered them and promptly instructed the jurors to…