People v. Forte

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Dutchess County (Hillery, J.), rendered May 11, 1982, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts), and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (three counts), upon a jury verdict and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

We conclude it was not error to permit the introduction of the defendant’s prior statements made on an answering machine tape into evidence, although those statements had been suppressed, since those statements were used only for the limited…