People v. Castro

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J.) rendered January 6, 1992 convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him as a predicate felon to a term of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was observed by a plainclothes detective passing two glassines to a female on the street in exchange for money. The officer, certain of his observation, together with a fellow officer arrested both the defendant and the purchaser.

We reject defendant’s claim that the trial court erred in refusing to…