People v. Bailey

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Colleen McMahon, J.), rendered October 9, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by the court’s preclusion of cross-examination of the arresting officer concerning the lack of effort by the People to locate, as a potential prosecution witness, the buyer in this observation sale case. This issue was entirely collateral, since there was no…