People v. Carus

Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Antonio Brandveen, J., at suppression hearing; David Stadtmauer, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered April 20, 1988, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law § 220.39 [1]) and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 7 Vi to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of selling one glassine envelope of heroin to an undercover officer. The evidence produced at the suppression hearing showed that defendant was promptly arrested after the…