People v. Wade

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Delin, J.), rendered April 18, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court did not err in admitting the tape of the drug transaction between the defendant and a confidential informant. Audibility of tape recordings is a preliminary question to be…