PEOPLE v. LEWIS (2000)

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

The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Peter LEWIS, Defendant-Appellant.

Decided: January 04, 2000

ROSENBERGER, J.P., WILLIAMS, LERNER, SAXE and BUCKLEY, JJ.

Elizabeth Nochlin, for Respondent. David Crow, for Defendant-Appellant.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J.), rendered February 26, 1997, 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 to concurrent terms of 4 1/212 to 9 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence amply supported a reasonable inference that defendant acted as a “screener” or “doorman” when he admitted the undercover officer to the locked drug location and directed him “upstairs” after ascertaining that the officer was seeking to purchase drugs.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.

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