People v. Graves

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard T. Andrias, J.), rendered March 16, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6V2 to 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

Limited background testimony as to methods used by drug dealers was properly received (People v Kelsey, 194 AD2d 248). Defendant failed to preserve his claim that this testimony was inadmissible absent a formal ruling that the officer was an "expert”, and we decline to review it in the interest of…