People v. Williams

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), rendered July 13, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of AV2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

It was not error for the trial court, especially in view of its limiting restrictions to the jury, to admit background evidence on "buy and bust” operations for the purpose of enabling the jury to understand why drugs and prerecorded buy money are not always recovered from a defendant’s person (People…