People v. Grace

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie G. Wittner, J.), rendered May 25, 2007, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of four years, unanimously affirmed.

*433The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. Defendant possessed a single package containing numerous fragments of a rock-like material. The police chemist weighed this material as a whole, and found that it weighed more than the statutory…