People v. McBride

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John Stackhouse, J.), rendered July 1, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s request for a missing witness charge was properly denied. Defendant failed to meet her initial burden of showing that the uncalled police witness overheard a transmission of the drug transaction or that, even if he heard the transmission, he could have been expected to provide material and…