People v. Marin

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Carey, J.), rendered December 18, 1987, convicting defendant after a jury trial of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to concurrent 4Vi-to-9-year indeterminate sentences, is unanimously affirmed.

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing testimony at trial with respect to an earlier uncharged drug sale. As a general rule, New York’s courts exclude proof tending to establish crimes other than those upon which defendant…