People v. Garcia

Judgment, Supreme *515Court, New York County (Rosalyn Richter, J.), rendered February 28, 2001, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting background testimony about street-level drug operations in order to explain the fact that no drugs or prerecorded buy money were recovered from defendant or the…