People v. Tucker

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J., at hearing; Albert Williams, J., at trial), rendered June 28, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to a term of 4Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

In this buy-and-bust operation, defendant was arrested moments after having made a sale of crack to an undercover officer. The officer provided a detailed description of the location and of defendant, as well as noting that defendant had removed orange-topped…