People v. Vina

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Finnegan, J.), rendered October 31, 1991, 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 was convicted of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree for having sold crack cocaine to an undercover police officer on a street corner. Contrary to the defendant’s contention on appeal, the court properly refused to charge the jury on the affirmative defense of entrapment, since no…