People v. Romero

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Harold Silverman, J.), rendered February 21, 1989, 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 two concurrent indeterminate terms of 4 Vi to 9 years’ imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s conviction arises out of his arrest for the street sale of crack cocaine to an undercover officer in exchange for premarked currency. The exchange was observed by another officer,…