People v. Prescott

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bárbaro, J.), rendered September 18, 2000, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the prosecutor improperly was permitted to elicit testimony from an undercover officer that he had seen the defendant before the incident and remembered his last name, and then permitted to refer to that testimony in summation, although the prosecutor knew that the defendant had no prior…