People v. Wilson

Judgment, *66Supreme Court, Bronx County (Nicholas Iacovetta, J.), rendered November 4, 1998, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Expert testimony on the roles played by participants in typical street-level drug sales was properly admitted, even though the absence of buy money on defendant was explained by the fact that he was seen handing the money to another person, from whom it was recovered. The expert testimony was necessary…