PEOPLE v. ORTEGA


270 A.D.2d 137 (2000)

705 N.Y.S.2d 343

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. CARLOS ORTEGA, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 21, 2000.


Background testimony by one of the undercover officers regarding the organization of street-level drug sales and the tactics of drug dealers was properly admitted (see, People v McAllister, 255 A.D.2d 241, lv denied 93 N.Y.2d 876), since the testimony was warranted by the evidence, was brief and limited, and carried no suggestion of large-scale drug activity. Defendant's challenge to the prosecutor's summation references ...

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