People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered February 27, 1990, 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 seventh degree, and sentencing her to concurrent terms of 4ti to 9 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

*415The People’s background evidence concerning street drug sales and a "buy and bust operation” was brief and limited (see, People v Gonzalez, 180 AD2d 553, lv denied 79 NY2d 1001). The difference between the People’s opening…