People v. Vega

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Murray Mogel, J.), rendered May 20, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s guilt was proven by legally sufficient evidence, and the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. The identification of the surveilling police officer, who observed defendant from a rooftop vantage point for some 20 minutes twice exchange vials for money, was…