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PEOPLE v. BUTTS

72 N.Y.2d 746 (1988)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Otis Butts, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Krisel and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (Paul Schectman and Mark Dwyer of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and BELLACOSA concur.

HANCOCK, JR., J.

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether the evidence at trial reasonably supported defendant's request for a jury charge on the affirmative defense of entrapment. The defendant was convicted, after a jury verdict, of making four separate sales of cocaine. The Trial Judge denied defendant's request for an entrapment charge on the first three...

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