People v. Johnson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered February 14, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury *90trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490).

The court properly exercised its discretion when it admitted photographs of the crime scene taken from the officer’s observation post and with a lens that had…