People v. Nelson

—Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County, rendered December 30, 1976, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the sixth degree. Defendant was arrested following his sale of a controlled substance to an undercover police officer. The sale had been arranged by means of a *733telephone conversation between the defendant and an informant. Although the informant was not produced as a witness, his permission to record that call was related, over defendant’s objection, by the officer who had recorded it and a tape of the…