People v. Cooper

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered May 1, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of marijuana in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 31/2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since the undercover officer’s ability to identify defendant was at issue, the court properly exercised its discretion in permitting the officer to testify about his unspecified “conversation” with defendant on a prior occasion. Defendant failed to preserve his present argument that the court should have declared a…