People v. Joyce

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Beldock, J.), rendered December 8, 1986, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (three counts), criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Isolated statements contained in the trial court’s instructions to the jury were improper (cf., People v…