People v. Oeller

—Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered August 9, 1990, after jury trial, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate felony offender, to a term of two to four years, is affirmed.

While stopped at the corner of 119th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan, at a red light, Officer John Brown and Officer Stephen Sanders observed defendant, a white male, pass an amount of money to an unapprehended black male and receive an "item” in exchange which he placed in his right hand…