People v. Roldan

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Andrias, J.), rendered August 3, 1988, 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 third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent, indeterminate terms of imprisonment of five to ten years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was arrested when police officers, from an observation post, observed him engage in several narcotics sales. At the beginning of deliberations, the jury asked for various items of physical evidence, as well as…