People v. Contreras

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered December 20, 1999, as amended August 26, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree and conspiracy in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 15 years and SVs to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence {see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490 [1987]). There was ample evidence, in the form of very extensive monitored telecommunications during…