People v. Martinez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered October 11, 1996, 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.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. In this observation sale case, probable cause was established by the arresting officer’s testimony that he acted in response to information received from the observing officer, who radioed that he had seen a drug transaction and provided defendant’s…