People v. Fadlin

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lipp, J.), rendered March 23, 1994, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The undercover police officer testified that, before he purchased cocaine from the defendant, a few people approached the defendant, handed him something, and the defendant handed them something back. This testimony was inextricably interwoven with testimony about the entire transaction. It was also necessary to complete the…