People v. Jackson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Roman, J.), rendered August 13, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree *288and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s contention that the trial court erred in refusing to allow defense counsel, in summation, to refer to the absence at trial of a police officer who acted as the so-called “ghost” officer during the buy-and-bust…