People v. Rivera

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered June 30, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to three concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly refused defendant’s request to charge the jury "not to look out the windows of the jury room” with the binoculars through which a police officer had observed defendant from a roof top…