People v. James

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Supreme Court did not err in denying the request of defendant to instruct the jury in its charge on entrapment that, in finding whether two undercover officers “induced or encouraged” him to sell cocaine, the jury should consider that “[i]n some circumstances, pleas to a defendant, based on sympathy or friendship, may * * * exert pressure on a defendant” (1 CJI[NY] 40.05). Penal Law § 40.05 requires a showing “both that the proscribed conduct was ‘induced or encouraged’ by official activity and that the defendant had no predisposition to engage in…