People v. Hunter

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered April 19, 1994, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On the morning of September 4, 1993, two Housing Authority police officers observed the defendant holding a clear plastic bag containing 35 vials of a white substance which appeared to be cocaine. The defendant was placed under arrest, and the 35…