People v. Lewis

Yesawich Jr., J. P.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Albany County (Harris, J.), rendered June 13, 1990, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree.

The testimony at trial established that at approximately 8:30 p.m. on April 5, 1989, after defendant disembarked from a bus that had arrived at the City of Albany station from New York City, James Tuffey, a plainclothes detective with the Albany Police Department, saw defendant place a clear plastic…