People v. Caban

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered May 25, 1993, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Although the prosecutor improperly questioned two witnesses concerning a prior, uncharged crime, the trial court did not act improperly in denying the defendant’s motion for a mistrial. The decision to grant or deny such a motion is within the trial…