People v. Casio

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Haft, J.), rendered March 9, 1990, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

A police officer using binoculars observed defendant delivering vials to an unidentified individual on a street corner in exchange for money, and thereafter retrieve a brown paper bag from around the corner near the side of a building. When the police backup team approached, defendant threw the bag…