People v. Cespedes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Slavin, J.), rendered May 3, 1988, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was arrested with two other men in an apartment in which the police found a large quantity of cocaine, assorted drug paraphernalia, and $8,887. At trial, the People relied upon the statutory presumption of knowing possession of narcotic drugs pursuant to Penal Law § 220.25 (2). Contrary to the defendant’s…