People v. Ballard

—Judgment, *297Supreme Court, New York County (Martin .Hettinger, J.), rendered April 19, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of A1!2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress was properly denied. One officer transmitted a description of a drug sale in progress to another officer along with descriptions of the participants. Once defendant and his customer were out of the first officer’s view, the second officer continued the…