People v. Alexander
| Decision Date | 23 April 1991 |
| Citation | 172 A.D.2d 385,568 N.Y.S.2d 931 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James ALEXANDER, Defendant-Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Before SULLIVAN, J.P., and ROSENBERGER, WALLACH, ASCH and KASSAL, JJ.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, (Joan Carey, J.), rendered June 14, 1988, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of four and one-half to nine years imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant's conviction arose out of a buy and bust operation. The undercover officer walked up to defendant and co-defendant, and asked defendant for "two nickels." The officer handed defendant ten dollars of buy money, which he gave to the co-defendant, stating "give him two." The co-defendant extracted two vials of cocaine from his own pocket, gave them to defendant, who in turn gave them to the officer. Both defendants were immediately arrested, and their identities were confirmed a few moments later in a drive-by identification. Defendant testified that he did not participate in the sale and was buying sneakers for his girlfriend in a store next to the bodega where he was arrested. Defendant's appellate contention that the court failed to submit a charge for criminal facilitation as a lesser included offense of the criminal sale charge, has been waived for review as a matter of law. Defendant did not request the court to charge criminal facilitation as a lesser included offense, and never objected to the court's failure to so charge the jury and the alleged error was not preserved for appellate review (CPL § 470.05). In any event, criminal facilitation is not a lesser included offense of criminal sale, People v. Glover, 57 N.Y.2d 61, 63-65, 453 N.Y.S.2d 660, 439 N.E.2d 376; see also, People v. Luther, 61 N.Y.2d 724, 472 N.Y.S.2d 614, 460 N.E.2d 1099; and any claim that the court erred by failing to charge an agency defense was similarly unpreserved. (CPL § 470.05, Subd. 2; People v. Gayles, 122 A.D.2d 222, 504 N.Y.S.2d 754; People v. Wolcott, 111 A.D.2d 513, 489 N.Y.S.2d 387). In any event, defendant's own testimony negates the existence of an agency defense (See generally, People v. Roche, 45 N.Y.2d 78, 83, 407 N.Y.S.2d 682, 379 N.E.2d 208, cert. denied, 439 U.S. 958, 99 S.Ct. 359, 58...
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