People v. Sierra

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Snyder, J.), rendered March 31, 1987, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to two concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from 6 to 12 years and a concurrent definite prison term of one year, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was arrested pursuant to a "buy-and-bust” operation in which he sold two…