People v. Green

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered July 19, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress the undercover officer’s identification of defendant as fruit of an unlawful seizure. The hearing evidence established that the undercover officer observed a hand-to-hand…