People v. Jenkins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Kleiman, J.), rendered August 12, 1986, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law §220.39 [1]) and sentencing him to an indeterminate prison term of 1 to 3 years, to run consecutively to an indeterminate term of 1 to 3 years which he was then serving for an unrelated conviction, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s conviction was based on the testimony of a police officer who observed the transaction while stationed on the roof of a building and using high-powered binoculars.…