People v. Jackson

Appeals by the defendant from (1) a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Adler, J.), rendered July 12, 2013, convicting him of unlawful possession of marijuana (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence, and (2) a resentence of the same court imposed October 31, 2013.

Ordered that the judgment and the resentence are affirmed.

At trial, the County Court gave an adverse inference charge permitting the jury to consider the People’s failure to preserve certain physical evidence in determining the weight to be given to their witnesses’ testimony. The defendant contends…