People v. LaFontaine

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dora L. Irizarry, J., at jury trial and sentence; Bernard Fried, J., at resentence), rendered April 26, 2002, as amended January 14, 2004, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

In this observation sale case, the court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of contemporaneous, uncharged drug sales in which the buyers were not apprehended. This evidence completed the narrative, tended to…