People v. Ellis

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J., at suppression hearing; Richard Failla, J., at plea and sentence), rendered February 18, 1992, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4 to 8 years, unanimously affirmed.

The testimony of the arresting officer, credited by the hearing court, that he saw defendant holding his open hand out and offering a small envelope containing vials of crack cocaine *91to a woman on the street, in the…