People v. Morales

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J., at suppression hearing; Richard Carruthers, J., at trial), rendered January 27, 1993, 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 10 to 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

Evidence at the suppression hearing was that the undercover officer observed defendant making three sales while about 45 feet away, across the street from where the undercover officer was making a buy. After the officer transmitted…