People v. Arias

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ruchelsman, J.), rendered October 15, 2001, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court properly declined to charge the jury on the defense of entrapment, as no reasonable view of the evidence supported such a defense (see Penal Law § 40.05; People v Brown, 82 NY2d 869 [1993]; People v James, 244 AD2d 939 [1997];…