People v. Setteroth

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered February 11, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4ti to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s constitutional right to present evidence at the Mapp hearing was not denied when the hearing court refused his request for a continuance so that he could call the officer who observed the "buy and bust” operation (the "ghost”) which ultimately led to his arrest. The decision was…