People v. Torres

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Silverman, J.), rendered on December 6, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him as a predicate felon to an indeterminate prison term of from six to twelve years, unanimously affirmed.

The fifty-year-old defendant was arrested pursuant to a buy- and-bust operation. The arresting officer removed a ten dollar bill of pre-recorded buy money from the defendant’s mouth.

Defendant’s absence from the pre-charge and post-charge conferences, without objection, was not…