People v. Patton

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Orgera, J.), rendered June 24, 1991, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was arrested after a so-called "buy and bust” operation wherein an undercover police officer purchased two vials of crack cocaine allegedly from the defendant using prerecorded money. Approximately five minutes later, a backup officer approached the defendant and saw him throw away a brown paper bag,…