People v. Gonzalez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Colleen McMahon, J.), rendered September 29, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 41/2 to 9 years and 3 to 6 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

In order to convict defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds (Penal Law § 220.44), the People were not required to prove that defendant knew that his…