People v. Mancini

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Zelman, J.), rendered October 27, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly permitted the People to call as rebuttal witnesses the undercover officer who had testified on the prosecution’s direct case that he purchased $20 worth of cocaine from the defendant, and the arresting officer who also testified on the direct case against the defendant. Their testimony served to…