People v. Leon

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Nicholas Figueroa, J.), rendered June 2, 1999, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The court properly rejected defendant’s agency defense (see, People v Herring, 83 NY2d 780). The evidence established that defendant was a participant in a drug-selling operation, and “there was no…