People v. Padilla

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.), rendered November 6, 1987, convicting defendant, after 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 terms of 5 to 15 years in prison, unanimously affirmed.

The defendant was arrested as a result of a "buy-and-bust” operation. The "prerecorded buy money” was recovered from the defendant’s person, together with 44 vials of crack cocaine from a pouch defendant dropped as the arresting officer…