People v. Mapp

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

We conclude that the evidence in this case was not such as to entitle defendant to a charge with respect to either the *940agency defense or the affirmative defense of entrapment. Accordingly it was not error for the trial court to deny defense counsel’s requests for such charges.

Nor is there substance to defendant’s claim that he was denied effective assistance of counsel in consequence of what he characterizes as a failure "to tender a meaningful summation in his behalf’. Faced with overwhelming proof of…