Opinion
March 7, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Juanita Bing Newton, J.).
Defendant's sufficiency claim concerning his knowledge of the weight of the drugs seized upon his arrest is unpreserved for appellate review as a matter of law (CPL 470.05), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. In any event, if we were to review it, we would find that such knowledge could be inferred from defendant's possession of packaged cocaine almost three times more than the threshold amount required by statute ( see, People v Hill, 85 N.Y.2d 256, 263; see, People v Sanchez, 86 N.Y.2d 27, 34). Nor was the verdict against the weight of the evidence ( see, People v Noble, 86 N.Y.2d 814). Issues of credibility were properly presented to the jury and we see no reason to disturb its verdict. We perceive no abuse of sentencing discretion.
Concur — Milonas, J.P., Kupferman, Nardelli and Mazzarelli, JJ.