People v. Chaplin

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Bambrick, J.), rendered July 5, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find that the trial court did not err in denying the defendant’s motion to sever his trial from that of the codefendant. The decision to grant or deny a separate trial is vested in the sound judgment of the Trial Judge. The defendant’s burden to…