People v. Fields

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), rendered September 3, 1987, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentenced him, as a predicate felon, to an indeterminate prison term of 12 Vi years to 25 years, is unanimously affirmed.

During an undercover drug operation, Officers Valentine and Mitchell drove their car slowly past a group of men congregated on 164th Street in Manhattan. Defendant approached the vehicle and offered drugs for sale. Valentine indicated he wanted to buy "crack” and defendant…