Case ID: ad2d_297/html/0561-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Eddy Lopez, Appellant.
    [747 NYS2d 156]
   The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490). There is no basis upon which to disturb the jury’s determinations concerning identification and credibility. The undercover officer made a reliable identification of defendant, particularly since he had ample opportunities to observe defendant during two transactions in the course of an investigation.

The court properly denied defendant’s request to submit a lesser included offense since there was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed most favorably to defendant, to support such a charge. The scientific evidence positively and consistently established that the weight of the drugs was well in excess of the statutory threshold for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree (see People v Butler, 248 AD2d 274, Iv denied 91 NY2d 1005). Concur — Wallach, J.P., Lerner, Rubin, Friedman and Gonzalez, JJ.