People v. George

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Pitaro, J.), rendered July 10, 1996, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, he is not entitled to a new trial because of the prosecutor’s opening statement. While the prosecutor made arguments in his opening statement which were better suited to a closing statement, and improperly vouched…