People v. Smith

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered December 17, 1996, 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 4x/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. Defendant’s conduct, which included initiating the drug transaction with the undercover officer and establishing the amount the officer was *112seeking, went far beyond identifying a possible supplier of…