People v. Williams

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

On June 5, 2007, an undercover police officer on a buy-and-bust operation joined two other people who approached defendant and asked if anyone was “out.” Defendant responded that they should “wait” and then walked around the corner. He returned and the undercover heard defendant, with his hand in his shirt covering his mouth, tell the group to “go around the corner,” motioning with his head in that direction. The buyers approached a woman sitting on building steps in the middle of the block. The undercover…