People v. Hicks

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flaherty, J.), rendered May 17, 1991, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

At approximately 5:30 p.m. on May 23, 1990, an undercover officer from the Queens Tactical Narcotics Team approached the defendant as he stood on the corner of 103rd Street and Northern Boulevard. The officer asked the defendant whether he was "working”, to which the defendant…