People v. Smith

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered September 28, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5V2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

Limited expert testimony was permissible to explain the absence of buy money on defendant after the sale, since there was evidence upon which to infer the existence of possible accomplices (compare, People v Taylor,…