People v. Haskins

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered March 10, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s contention that the court shifted the burden of proof by instructing the jury, during preliminary instructions, to consider opening statements “as a preview of what each side intends to prove by way of evidence in the case”…