People v. Johnson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), rendered June 5, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A police officer testified that he observed the defendant accept United States currency from an individual named Milton Holder, after which the defendant dropped envelopes on the ground which Holder retrieved. Holder and the defendant were subsequently arrested, and a bag containing cocaine was found in Holder’s shoe.

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