People v. Archie

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon a jury verdict of crimes arising from the possession and sale of cocaine on two separate occasions. Defendant seeks reversal of his conviction under the first count of the indictment charging him with the criminal sale of a controlled substance “to an undercover New York State Trooper” on the ground that the alleged sale was made to an informant and not the State Trooper. Although ordinarily “the identity of the person to whom [defendant] sold drugs is not a material element of the crime of…