Opinion
Argued April 27, 2000.
June 5, 2000.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leach, J.), rendered September 8, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, criminal facilitation in the fourth degree, and unlawful possession of marihuana, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Whitman Breed Abbott Morgan, New York (Trevor H. Peterson of counsel), and M. Sue Wycoff, New York, N.Y. (David Crow of counsel), for appellant (one brief filed).
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Nicoletta J. Caferri, Roni Piplani, and Brian Stavrides of counsel), for respondent.
Before: THOMAS R. SULLIVAN, J.P., LEO F. McGINITY, HOWARD MILLER, NANCY E. SMITH, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The undercover police officer did not improperly bolster his testimony regarding the subject narcotics transaction by his testimony as an expert regarding the role of a "doorman" in indoor drug sales (see, People v. Peoples, 202 A.D.2d 694).
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution (see, People v. Contes, 60 N.Y.2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Moreover, upon the exercise of our factual review power, we are satisfied that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see, CPL 470.15).