People v. Bligen

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered January 6, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and seventh degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly admitted $187 recovered from defendant at the time of his arrest because this evidence was relevant to intent to sell, an essential element of several of the charges in the indictment (see e.g. People v Nieves, 290 AD2d 371…