People v. Eustate

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (James Leif, J.), rendered April 18, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree (two counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 to 16 years, 1 year, and 1 year, unanimously affirmed.

The People presented legally sufficient evidence of defendant’s guilt of the crimes charged and the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence showed that defendant and the…