Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Irish Frierson, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-10-07
Citations: 265 A.D.2d 172
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Irish Frierson, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 265
Pages: 172–173

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Irish Frierson, Appellant.
[695 NYS2d 361]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Bernstein, J.), rendered June 11, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 4x/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.
Limited expert testimony, by an officer who was also a fact witness, concerning methods used by drug dealers to avoid being found in possession of drugs and buy money was properly admitted to explain the non-recovery of the buy money (see, People v Hunt, 249 AD2d 246, lv denied 92 NY2d 899). Such testimony did not suggest a large-scale drug conspiracy (see, People v McAllister, 255 AD2d 241, lv denied 93 NY2d 876). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Nardelli, Wallach, Andrias and Buckley, JJ.