Opinion
Submitted January 21, 2000
March 9, 2000
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Dabiri, J.), rendered April 9, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (William A. Loeb of counsel), for appellant.
Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Roseann B. MacKechnie, Anne C. Feigus, and Kevie A. Aulbach of counsel), for respondent.
CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., DANIEL W. JOY, ANITA R. FLORIO, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The prosecution established a sufficient chain of custody of the narcotics recovered from the defendant upon his arrest, and prosecution witnesses provided reasonable assurances of the identity of the narcotics and of their unchanged condition (see,People v. Julian, 41 N.Y.2d 340, 343 ; People v. Duke, 235 A.D.2d 547 ;People v. Jason, 210 A.D.2d 256 ; People v. McIntyre, 175 A.D.2d 637, 638 ; People v. Griffith, 171 A.D.2d 678 ).
O'BRIEN, J.P., JOY, FLORIO, and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.