People v. Lyons

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered September 15, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

After a joint trial, the defendant was convicted of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. The defendant argues that the court’s refusal to admit testimony of two police officers, serving as a back-up in this "buy and bust” operation, which testimony concerned the undercover officer’s description…