People v. Rivera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered September 4, 1996, 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 to concurrent terms of 6V2 to 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly ruled that defendant’s proposed agency defense would open the door to elicitation of the nature and underlying facts of his three prior convictions arising out of drug sales. We note that the court never made a final ruling on this…