Opinion
2001-10153
Argued May 5, 2003.
May 19, 2003.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Latella, J.), rendered November 7, 2001, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Reyna R. Marder of counsel), for appellant.
Richard A. Brown, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Nicoletta J. Caferri, and Anjanette Cabrera of counsel), for respondent.
Before: MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, J.P., LEO F. McGINITY, DANIEL F. LUCIANO, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defense attorney's cross-examination of the undercover officer justified the People's subsequent questioning of the officer on redirect examination (see generally People v. Melendez, 55 N.Y.2d 445, 451; People v. Johnson, 296 A.D.2d 422, lv denied 99 N.Y.2d 537).
The defendant's remaining contentions are without merit.
ALTMAN, J.P., McGINITY, LUCIANO and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.