People v. Christian

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.), rendered January 13, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the *260fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the conviction to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and remanding the matter for resentencing in accordance therewith.

A police officer observed defendant packaging crack into glassine envelopes on top of a video game. The officer…