People v. Johnson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Harbater, J.), rendered January 28, 1992, 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.

On the afternoon of July 6, 1991, an undercover narcotics officer observed the defendant hand several glassine envelopes of heroin to Melvin Gunther in exchange for a sum of money. After the sale was completed, the undercover officer transmitted descriptions of the suspects to her back-up team, and both the defendant…