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p. 233The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Artis Jones, Appellant. [664 NYS2d 916]
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Altman, J.), rendered January 16, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
Under the circumstances, the probative value of the evidence of uncharged contemporaneous narcotics sales substantially outweighed the risk of prejudice to defendant (People v Alvino, 71 NY2d 233 ; see also, People v Pressley, 216 AD2d 202 , lv denied 86 NY2d 800 ). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Nardelli and Colabella, JJ.
Cases cited
- People v. Alvino 71 NY2d 233 p. 233