People v. McCall

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. Before trial, the court issued a ruling precluding the People from introducing evidence of any "transactions” other than the two charged drug sales. At trial, a police officer testified that four individuals approached defendant after the charged sales occurred and that he observed "some hand movement” but "couldn’t really see what was going on other than they were right around him.”…