Defendant was arrested on September 22, 1987 as part of a buy-and-bust operation. Having raised the defense of agency, defendant contends that the court's failure to charge that it was the People's burden to disprove the agency defense beyond a reasonable doubt deprived him of a fair trial. We conclude that the court's charge as a whole properly conveyed the People's burden to disprove the agency defense, although it would have been preferable for the court to have specifically...
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