People v. Wigfall

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered December 5, 1988, which convicted 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 sentenced him to concurrent terms of imprisonment of from 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was arrested when he was observed engaging in a drug transaction, exchanging vials of crack for money. Three police officers from a distance of 20 to 30 feet in a moving patrol car with an unobstructed view of the…