People v. Frierson

265 A.D.2d 172, 695 N.Y.S.2d 361, 1999 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9709

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.), rendered June 11, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4x/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Limited expert testimony, by an officer who was also a fact witness, concerning methods used by drug dealers to avoid being found in possession of drugs and buy money was properly admitted to explain the non-recovery of the buy money (see, People v Hunt, 249 AD2d 246, lv denied 92 NY2d 899). Such testimony did not suggest a large-scale drug conspiracy (see, People v McAllister, 255 AD2d 241, lv denied 93 NY2d 876). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Wallach, Andrias and Buckley, JJ.