People v. Clarke

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Fisher, J.), rendered October 23, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

As an undercover police officer waited her turn to purchase two vials of crack cocaine from a basement apartment, she overheard the defendant, who had let her through an outer door into the vestibule of the apartment, conversing with a disgruntled individual who had just made a purchase. During the argument, the…