People v. Butts

OPINION OF THE COURT

Hancock, Jr., J.

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether the evi*748dence at trial reasonably supported defendant’s request for a jury charge on the affirmative defense of entrapment. The defendant was convicted, after a jury verdict, of making four separate sales of cocaine. The Trial Judge denied defendant’s request for an entrapment charge on the first three sales and granted it as to the last. The Appellate Division, relying on decisions of various Federal Courts of Appeals (see, e.g., United States v Dorta, 783 F2d 1179; United States v Rey, 706 F2d 145; United…