People v. Jones

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ivan Warner, J., at hearing, trial and sentence), rendered October 24, 1988, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him as a predicate felony offender to an indeterminate term of from 7 to 14 years imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant sold a vial of crack to an undercover officer and was arrested a few minutes later in possession of the prerecorded buy money. Defendant contends that the court erred in denying his motion to suppress the buy money, because the People failed to call the…