People v. Almonte

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered March 23, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of from 3 to 9 years, is unanimously affirmed.

After a joint trial, defendant and his twin brother, Raymond, were convicted as accomplices for selling narcotics to an undercover police officer. Our recent affirmance of the co-defendant’s conviction is equally applicable here to the extent that we rejected the argument that the undercover officer’s…