People v. Blanco

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered July 31, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds, criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s challenge to the court’s omission from its final charge of an instruction regarding the weight to be accorded a police officer’s testimony is…