People v. Castro

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Drager, J., at pretrial severance motion; William Leibovitz, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered December 19, 1996, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to *293concurrent terms of 15 years to life and 8 to 16 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

After a thorough hearing, the court properly determined that, through no fault of the People and despite their reasonably diligent efforts to produce him, the confidential informant…