People v. Brown

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), rendered November 28, 1988, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred by responding to certain requests from the deliberating jury in his absence and that this error deprived him of the…