People v. Robinson

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered May 4, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted evidence of defendant’s hand movements towards his mouth area at the time of his arrest. This evidence, from which it could be inferred that defendant was attempting to destroy evidence by…