People v. Dudley

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered May 26, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth and seventh degrees, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 3 to 6 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in precluding defendant from cross-examining a police chemist regarding the police laboratory’s receipt, at the time in question, of only a provisional accreditation pursuant to the State program for ac*331creditatio…