People v. Rivera

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered July 31, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds (four counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to five concurrent terms of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s various challenges to police expert testimony regarding street-level narcotics transactions and to the prosecutor’s comments on this testimony and on the role played by defendant in the drug…