People v. Julius

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered August 23, 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 5V2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

The grand jury minutes establish that the grand jurors who considered and voted on the indictment were present for all “essential and critical” evidence (see People v Collier, 72 NY2d 298, 301). In this complex presentation involving multiple sales, undercover officers and defendants, defendant…