People v. Cid

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Franklin Weissberg, J., at hearing; Nicholas Figueroa, J., at trial and sentence), rendered June 24, 1993, insofar as appealed from, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 53/4 to ll1/2 years, unanimously affirmed.

Probable cause in this "buy and bust” case was demonstrated by the arresting officer’s testimony that she arrested defendant because he matched a detailed description of the seller provided in a radio transmission…