People v. Coward

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered May 6, 1996, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

While a team of detectives was investigating a house used to store or secrete narcotics in Kings County, it encountered the defendant, who was in the process of purchasing 62 grams of cocaine. The defendant was convicted of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree. Contrary to the defendant’s…