People v. Flecha

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Vincent Vitale, J.), rendered July 8, 1987, 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 degree (two counts) and sentencing him as a second felony offender to concurrent indeterminate terms of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

On September 22, 1986, defendant was arrested within minutes of selling narcotics to an undercover police officer. Defendant now claims on appeal that he was denied a fair trial by the court’s reference to…