People v. Alacantar

— Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Emily J. Goodman, J.), rendered March 30, 1989, convicting defendant after jury trial of criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance, both in the third degree, and sentencing him to respective concurrent terms of 1 to 3 years imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant and a cohort were arrested for drug trafficking after surveillance by two police officers over a 20-minute period. Officer Trabucca observed three transactions at about the midnight hour, through binoculars, from an apartment window about 35 to 40 feet away. When the officers…