People v. Lawrence

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Roger S. Hayes, J.), rendered March 5, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of seven years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Shortly after defendant’s arrest, one officer showed another officer a bag of cocaine he had recovered from defendant’s car and estimated the drug’s weight, whereupon defendant, who was nearby, asked how the officer knew the weight of the cocaine. The hearing court properly denied defendant’s…