People v. Morales

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered December 15, 1994, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Justice Ritter has been substituted for the late Justice Hart (see, 22 NYCRR 670.1 [c]).

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s conviction was based upon evidence that he sold two bags of cocaine to an undercover police officer for $10 during a "buy and bust” operation. Within minutes of the sale, the defendant was arrested by the field team…