People v. Banks

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered April 2, 1990, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant is alleged to have provided a handful of vials filled with crack cocaine to a codefendant who, in turn, handed the vials to another codefendant, who subsequently gave two of the vials to an undercover police officer in exchange for $10…