People v. Young

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Paul Bookson, J.), rendered February 28, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly permitted introduction of evidence of uncharged, contemporaneous drug sales to unapprehended buyers, as highly, relevant to the issue of defendant’s intent to sell the heroin recovered from him, as well as to explain why the police officer’s observation was focused on defendant.…