People v. Crandall

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bellacosa, J.

We affirm the drug possession conviction, tried and appealed separately from the drug sale conviction which was previously reversed, because the somewhat intricate procedural and legal issues involved in the possession prosecution do not offend constitutional, statutory or precedential principles.

A series of drug sales by the defendant to an undercover officer in Albany in September of 1983 led to an oral application for a search warrant, the grant of an "oral search warrant”, and the ultimate arrest of defendant Crandall in a pickup truck near Albany Airport…