People v. Martin

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John A.K. Bradley, J.), rendered October 2, 1987, convicting defendant-appellant of two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to dismiss one *808count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and otherwise affirmed.

The defendant was arrested after two police officers stationed on the rooftops of two buildings on East 13th Street in Manhattan, using binoculars, observed him exchange several red and white glassine envelopes with a man who…