People v. Raymond

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gorges, J.), rendered February 5, 1991, convicting him of criminal in possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In this case a police officer observed, through an apartment door opened in response to the officer’s knock, the defendant in possession of a clear plastic bag containing vials of cocaine and running towards the rear of the apartment. The defendant claims that the subsequent police entry into the apartment was…