People v. Perez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Antonio Brandveen, J.), rendered December 8, 1997, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. The evidence established that defendant was part of a drug-selling operation and thus constructively possessed the drugs found on the codefendant when both were…