People v. Arroyo

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Livingston Wingate, J.), rendered September 18, 1985, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to a prison term of from 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

On September 10, 1983, from the third story of a building, Detective Morrill surveyed the street through binoculars for drug transactions. He observed defendant and his codefendant give a glassine envelope to another person in exchange for money. Soon thereafter, the three men were…