People v. Vargas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Su*259preme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J.), rendered October 6, 1993, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of IV2 to 4 Vi years, unanimously affirmed.
In this "buy-and-bust” prosecution, in which the nonrecovery of buy money was integral to the defense of misidentification it was relevant and material, as background evidence, for police officers to describe the organization and execution of a buy-and-bust operation (People v Kelsey, 194 AD2d 248; People v Ramos, 192 AD2d 324, lv…
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