People v. Jenkins

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered February 17, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

Viewed in a light most favorable to the People (People v Malizia, 62 NY2d 755, 757, cert denied 469 US 932) the evidence of defendant’s drug-induced state while sitting in a parked vehicle in which cocaine was found was legally sufficient to show defendant’s constructive possession of the cocaine.…