People v. Maria

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered May 17, 1994, 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, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The People’s proof overwhelmingly established that, in screening and steering customers, defendant acted in concert with his partner to possess and sell cocaine, as charged. The failure to recover prerecorded buy money or drugs from…