People v. Stokes

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene Silverman, J., at suppression hearing; Bruce Allen, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered February 11, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. There was no requirement that the People produce the undercover drug purchaser at the suppression hearing in order to establish probable cause (People v Petralia, 62 NY2d 47, 51-52, cert denied 469…