People v. Crespo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered December 10, 1990, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to two concurrent terms of IV2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly allowed the police testimony regarding defendant’s uncharged drug sales immediately preceding the charged sale, since its probative value, i.e., to provide a complete and coherent narrative…