PEOPLE v. BOWENS (2025)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kilrail BOWENS, Defendant–Appellant.

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Decided: April 03, 2025

Manzanet–Daniels, J.P., Moulton, Gesmer, Pitt–Burke, Michael, JJ.

Twyla Carter, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Frank Xiao of counsel), for appellant. Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Faith DiTrolio of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Mandelbaum, J.), rendered March 29, 2019, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, three counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third and fourth degrees and three counts of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of six years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant's argument that the undercover officer had no recollection of three of the charged drug sales and therefore that the verdicts as to these counts were against the weight of the evidence finds no support in the record. The record shows that the undercover officer testified credibly and in detail after refreshing her recollection (see People v. Boyd, 58 N.Y.2d 1016, 1018, 462 N.Y.S.2d 435, 448 N.E.2d 1346 [1983]).

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