People v. Vega

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William A. Wetzel, J.), rendered March 3, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4x/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

In this observation sale case where identity was a central is*352sue, the court appropriately exercised its discretion in admitting evidence that the observing officer had met defendant on several undescribed prior occasions, knew him by name and had been to his apartment. The probative value of this…