People v. Hawkins

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered November 12, 1975, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. The trial court instructed the jury that even if it was unable to find that the substance actually sold to the undercover police officer was, in fact, a controlled substance, it could still convict the defendant of sale of a controlled substance if it further found that he knowingly offered to sell a controlled substance and genuinely believed…