People v. Thompson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy L. Kahn, J), rendered March 3, 2008, 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 third and fourth degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to an aggregate term of four years, unanimously affirmed.

The court denied defendant’s mistrial motion made after the prosecutor, without having obtained a ruling on the matter during the pretrial Sandoval hearing, asked defendant on cross-examination whether he had owed…