People v. Ortiz

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered April 22, 1993, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminal possession of controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 to 14 years and 31/2 to 7 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the trial court based its Sandoval ruling on his anticipated trial testimony and punished him for seeking to offer testimony which conflicted with the People’s…