People v. Johnson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered June 30, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession 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.

The court properly permitted a police witness to testify that defendant changed direction upon making "eye-to-eye contact” with the witness. Rather than expressing an opinion or describing defendant’s mental operations, the use of that phrase was necessary for the purpose of accurately describing the…