People v. Ortiz

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.), rendered January 15, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim that the prosecutor’s summation comment that defendant was a "sophisticated drug dealer” improperly attempted to establish guilt by criminal propensity and constituted improper bolstering of the People’s witnesses is unpreserved for appellate review as a matter of law, since the…