People v. Yates

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Browne, J.), rendered April 23, 1987, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that he was denied his right to a fair trial by the trial court’s failure to give a limiting instruction to the jury with regard to the People’s use of his prior crimes was not preserved for appellate review as a matter of law…