The court properly denied defendant's request for an instruction on the affirmative defense of entrapment. There was no reasonable view of the evidence that the officers induced or encouraged defendant to commit bribery, or that their conduct created a substantial risk that defendant would commit that crime although not otherwise disposed to do so (see Penal Law § 40.05; People v Brown,
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