People v. Okonkwo

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J., at Hinton hearing and jury trial), rendered March 14, 1990, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon to 4 Vi to 9 years imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s conviction arises out of his arrest on October 22, 1989, for the street sale of three vials of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer in exchange for prerecorded buy money recovered from defendant.

Contrary to defendant’s argument, we perceive no abuse of discretion by the trial court…