People v. Lopez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered April 22, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Contemporaneous uncharged sales were properly admitted to complete the narrative of events and to establish the extent of the officer’s opportunity to observe defendant and make a reliable identification (see, People v Pressley, 216 AD2d 202, lv denied 86 NY2d 800).

The court’s compromise Sandoval ruling…