People v. Williams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Obús, J.), rendered June 29, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of crim*182inal 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 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 458-459). Since defendant did not, at any time during the Sandoval proceedings, give any…