People v. Clarke

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Rockland County (Nelson, J.), rendered October 24, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and sentencing him to concurrent indeterminate terms of 12½ years to life imprisonment for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and for each…