People v. Chisom

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Cohen, J.), rendered October 28, 1987, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We do not agree with the defendant that the trial court committed reversible error when it denied his request, strenuously opposed by the People, for a missing witness charge (see, e.g., People v Gonzalez, 68 NY2d 424) with respect to one of the police officers involved in the defendant’s arrest. The People are…