People v. Bello

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J.), entered May 15, 1996, dismissing the indictment which charged the defendant with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the indictment reinstated.

The undercover officer testified before the Grand Jury that at about 12:55 p.m., on February 12, 1996, the defendant and his co-defendant Evelyn Castellar were standing outside 201 West 93rd Street. The officer approached them and asked them for “nicks”, which is street slang for $5 bags of crack cocaine. The defendant asked “how…