PEOPLE v. RIVERA


74 A.D.2d 882 (1980)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Luis A. Rivera, Appellant

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

March 17, 1980


Judgment reversed, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, and new trial ordered. The trial court erred in charging the jury that the defense of agency "absolves individuals from criminal responsibility for selling drugs when the sale comprises no more than an effort to accommodate a buyer under circumstances utterly devoid of personal gain, motive or complicity of any sort with the seller" (emphasis supplied). "Receipt of some incidental...

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