People v. Thomas

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J.), rendered July 9, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

In view of the defendant’s testimony specifically contradicting essentially all of the police testimony regarding their observations of the narcotics sale and the circumstances of defendant’s arrest, the trial court properly…