People v. Van Huse

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dufficy, J.), rendered May 10, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion when it permitted expert testimony by the undercover police officer, who had observed the drug sale, concerning narcotics abuse, particularly of cocaine and its derivatives. "It is for the…