People v. Smith

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Pitaro, J.), rendered April 12, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, a police officer testified that he observed the defendant engage in three separate sales of so-called "crack cocaine”. The three crack sales occurred one after the other, at approximately 9:28 p.m., 9:52 p.m., and 10:10 p.m. on April 14, 1987. The sales were made to three different individuals, and on each…