People v. Melo

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Thomas B. Galligan, J.), rendered on July 7, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 15 years to life on the former charge and 2 to 6 years on the latter charge, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant negotiated the terms of a cocaine sale with two undercover officers who were introduced to the defendant by a confidential informant, and was arrested…