People v. Dubose

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered June 14, 1996, 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 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s request for a mistrial, since it cured any prejudice by immediately striking from the record the inadvertent elicitation by the People of defendant’s possession of a crack pipe, contrary to the court’s in limine ruling, and by issuing a contemporaneous curative…