People v. Andrade

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Moore, J.), rendered October 16, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds (two counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 2 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

In this observation sale case, the court properly admitted expert testimony as to the market value of a glassine envelope of heroin at the relevant time and place, along with the expert’s opinion that the amount of money recovered from…