People v. Gomez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J.), rendered March 19, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first and second degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years to life and 6 years to life, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Since defendant’s successful in limine motion did not, under the circumstances presented, address his present claim that a statement attributed to a coconspirator should not have been admitted without a showing of the coconspirator’s…