Opinion
Submitted May 21, 2001
June 18, 2001.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Fisher, J.), rendered December 17, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Andrew C. Fine, New York, N.Y. (Beth S. Lyons of counsel), for appellant.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Alyson J. Gill, and Stephen B. Selbst of counsel), for respondent.
Before: FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P., GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, HOWARD MILLER, STEPHEN G. CRANE, JJ.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court properly admitted limited expert testimony concerning the general practices of drug dealers (see, People v. Smalls, 266 A.D.2d 570; People v. Kane, 207 A.D.2d 846, affd sub nom. People v. Graves, 85 N.Y.2d 1024).
SANTUCCI, J.P., GOLDSTEIN, H. MILLER and CRANE, JJ., concur.