People v. Negron
| Decision Date | 15 August 1986 |
| Citation | 506 N.Y.S.2d 5,122 A.D.2d 894 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Julio NEGRON, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Solomon Rosengarten, New York City, for appellant.
Julio Negron, pro se.
Elizabeth Holtzman, Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y. (Barbara D. Underwood, Leonard Joblove and Aaron E. Fishbein, of counsel), for respondent.
Before LAZER, J.P., and MANGANO, BROWN and WEINSTEIN, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Tomei, J.), rendered March 24, 1983, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Judgment affirmed.
The testimony by undercover officer Robert Cortes that codefendant Blanca Cruz told him "we got some ['black bags' or heroin]" as she pointed to the defendant, was properly admissible as a statement by a coconspirator that had adequate independent indicia of reliability. Admission of this testimony therefore did not violate the defendant's confrontation rights (see, People v. Sanders, 56 N.Y.2d 51, 451 N.Y.S.2d 30, 436 N.E.2d 480). This court has previously examined the trial court's charge on the appeal from codefendant Blanca Cruz' conviction and found it did not warrant reversal (see, People v. Cruz, 119 A.D.2d 765, 501 N.Y.S.2d 607 [2d Dept., 1986] ). We have reviewed the defendant's other contentions and find them to be without merit.
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