People v. Winfield

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Vaughn, J.), rendered August 12, 1997, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), criminal possession of a weapon in *487the fourth degree, and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s…