People v. Wager

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered February 9, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Even if the court, in these circumstances, should not have permitted expert testimony relating to the issue of defendant’s intent to sell, such ruling was harmless because there is no significant probability that the jury would have acquitted him. Defendant, was observed showing glassines to a…