People v. Eraso

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J.), rendered January 23, 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 as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. There was ample evidence upon which the jury could reject defendant’s defense.

The court properly ordered closure of the…