People v. Padilla

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered April 11, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and resisting arrest, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years and a conditional discharge, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based upon legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490). There was ample evidence that defendant possessed the drugs that were recovered from his person and…