People v. Whiten

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Obús, J.), rendered August 7, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

*106The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting photographs of the crime scene taken, by means of a lens replicating the degree of magnification of the observing officer’s binoculars, from approximately the same…