People v. Carter

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edwin Torres, J.), rendered March 16, 1994, 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.

Defendant was not deprived of a fair trial by police testimony, which was appropriately adduced as background serving to explain why no drugs or buy money were recovered from defendant (People v Woney, 205 AD2d 480, lv denied 84…