People v. Rodriguez

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Eugene Nardelli, J.), rendered October 26, 1989, convicting defendant of one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate term of 6 years to life imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

At the trial, the police chemist testified that he conducted three color tests on 50 glassine envelopes that were randomly selected from the initial group of 499 such envelopes. Following positive indicator results, the chemist mixed the contents of the 50 glassines and…