PEOPLE v. LAUDER


65 A.D.2d 520 (1978)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Sylvester Lauder, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

October 12, 1978


Defendant acknowledged possession of cocaine in the presence of an undercover officer, but offered testimony that a friend, a paid informant, over a two-month period repeatedly tried to induce and encourage him to obtain the drug for a third party, the officer. Defendant contended that he was not predisposed to commit the crime and that he had made no initiations of his own in the sequence of events leading to the transactions, relenting only after continuous pressure by...

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