People v. Cordero

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lewis, J.), rendered January 24, 2001, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance 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.

In People v Dini (292 AD2d 631 [2002]), we reversed a judgment of conviction rendered after a jury trial because the court responded to a jury request for further instructions in the jury room, without the defendant’s consent, in his absence. We held…