PEOPLE v. LOTT (2009)

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

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jamar LOTT, Defendant-Appellant.

Decided: February 24, 2009

ANDRIAS, J.P., SWEENY, McGUIRE, DeGRASSE, JJ.

Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), and Arent Fox LLP, New York (Stergios P. Kosmidis of counsel), for appellant. Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York (Deborah L. Morse of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles J. Tejada, J.), rendered August 10, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 5 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v. Danielson, 9 N.Y.3d 342, 348-349, 849 N.Y.S.2d 480, 880 N.E.2d 1 [2007] ). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning credibility. The jury could have reasonably concluded that defendant or another participant in the sale secreted most of the prerecorded buy money by means that went undetected by the police.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.

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