People v. Villanueva

—Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered June 10, 1991, convicting defendants, after jury trial, of one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing each, as a predicate felon, to an indeterminate term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People (People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620, 621), the evidence was legally sufficient since an encounter during a buy and bust operation which lasts only a few minutes provides an ade*383quate opportunity to observe the defendant’s…