People v. Dawkins

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Teresi, J.), rendered August 16, 1995 in Albany County, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and forgery in the second degree.

On October 14, 1994, police officers saw four men in the area between a car and a van which were parked in a parking lot near the bus station in the City of Albany. They observed one of the men pass a bag to Sean Davis (also known as Clarence Martin), who removed a "large, white, chunky substance” from the bag and handed it to a…