People v. Graves

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered January 12, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence warrants the conclusion that the drugs recovered from the buyer were sold to him by defendant during the transaction that had been witnessed by the observing officer shortly before the…