People v. Burgos

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered October 16, 1992, 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 4½ to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The chain of custody, as established by the testimony of the detective and the chemist, provided reasonable assurances that the package in question was the same one the undercover officer purchased from defendant and that the package was kept in police custody from the time it was purchased up until the…