People v. Torres

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Marks, J.), rendered March 18, 1988, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 220.09) and sentencing him to a term of 3 to 6 years’ imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

During the early evening of April 27, 1987, the police, acting on information received from a confidential informant, arrested defendant for possessing heroin. Earlier that day, the informant had told the police that the defendant would be picking up drugs from inside a third-floor apartment…