People v. Rodriguez

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brill, J.), rendered March 19, 1990, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

After observing the defendant exchange a glassine envelope for money with an unidentified male, Police Officer William Ryan chased and subsequently caught the defendant. As he was being tackled, the defendant threw a paper bag containing 32 glassine envelopes of…