People v. Selman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Chambers, J.), rendered May 12, 2005, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and conspiracy in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At trial, a police detective testified that during an undercover purchase of narcotics from the defendant and a codefendant, he observed the defendant hand the package containing crack-cocaine to the codefendant prior to the sale. The defendant sought to impeach this testimony by…