People v. Williams

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered February 7, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury 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 court properly exercised its discretion by prohibiting defendant from establishing that the arresting officer found a crack pipe on the individual arrested with defendant. This evidence was irrelevant. Even if it were marginally relevant to defendant’s claim that he was using but not selling drugs,…