People v. Jones

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered April 14, 1978, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. In the circumstances of this case, the defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the references to 696 Washington Avenue as a "main distribution point” for heroin and the undercover officer’s statement that he "went back to purchase some more narcotics.” Both statements were the subject of objections followed by curative instructions, after which no…