People v. McKnight

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered November 19, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree (two counts) and conspiracy in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 years to life, 7 years to life, and 4 to 8 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s mistrial motion based on the introduction of “surprise” evidence of purported uncharged crimes. The drug transactions in question constituted evidence of the charged…