People v. Rivera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered September 9, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4½ to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenges to the testimony of police witnesses concerning police procedures and terminology for participants in drug transactions and the targeting of areas, because of neighborhood complaints about drug trafficking,…