People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldstein, J.), rendered July 17, 1987, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the People failed to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was acting solely as an agent of an undercover officer. As noted by the Court of Appeals in People v Argibay (45 NY2d 45, 53-54, cert denied sub nom. Hahn-DiGuiseppe v New York, 439 US 930): "To be an agent of his buyer, a…
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