People v. Cooper

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered March 1, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s objections to the court’s delivery, during voir dire, of an unrequested instruction to the jury to draw no adverse inference in the event that defendant chose not to testify, and to the expansive language of that…