PEOPLE v. JOHNSON


11 A.D.3d 203 (2004)

782 N.Y.S.2d 266

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MICHAEL JOHNSON, Appellant.

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

October 5, 2004.


The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting into evidence a large plastic bag, containing smaller bags of cocaine, that the police recovered from a woman who had been standing next to defendant at the time of his arrest. Minutes earlier, defendant had made a sale to an undercover officer who noticed that defendant dispensed the drugs involved in that sale from a large bag that contained smaller bags. The circumstances permitted a reasonable inference that defendant...

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