People v. Rivera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J.), rendered October 31, 1988, convicting defendant, after a 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 to concurrent indeterminate terms of from IVi to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

One of the arresting officers testified that while processing defendant’s arrest for the sale of heroin, defendant stated, in the presence of the desk officer, that only a portion of the money represented drug proceeds. The…