People v. Oquendo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered December 2, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of IV2 to 4V2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s application for the appointment, pursuant to County Law § 722-c, of a purported expert to testify at trial that it was unusual for a hand-to-hand dealer to have nothing but buy money on him when arrested, since defendant failed to demonstrate the necessity for such appointment, or that under…