People v. Lacey

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Donati, J.), rendered April 4, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, and sentencing him to 5 years’ probation, unanimously affirmed.

The limited expert testimony on the various roles of the participants in street-level narcotics sales, including how their roles may change, was admissible to explain, inter alia, the absence of buy money on this particular defendant and his role in the sale, which involved two other participants (see, People v Rivera, 209 AD2d 151, lv…